[Adium-devl] Category instead of protocol

[Peter Hosey]

On Apr 18, 2007, at 13:48:40, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> Protocols are a set of methods which a conforming class must  
> implement in their entirety.

In the “stuff we'll be able to use eventually” department:

Leopard will bring the ability to declare protocol methods as  
optional, which will make formal protocols the Right Choice for  
situations such as delegation, where protocols have been declared  
informally using categories since the NeXT days.

This feature is documented publicly here:
	http://lists.apple.com/archives/objc-language/2006/Aug/msg00039.html
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