[Biococoa-dev] Base test

[Alexander Griekspoor]

> I was aware of the foundation functions that take strings for 
> arguments and return selectors/classes.  Unfortunately, if we’re going 
> to use singletons, we’d need to call Class methods to create them, not 
> instance methods, and I’m not aware of any mechanism for calling a 
> selector on a Class.

Oops, see the problem now. I can come quite far by getting the class 
method's location:
	NSString *str = @"callMe"; // example string, normally from plist
	class_getClassMethod([BCSymbol class], selector);    // this should 
get you a pointer to the method

The big problem here and where I get stuck is how to "invoke" this 
method on the class?
Here is where my knowledge and background let me down ;-(



>  One option that has occurred to me is to create a generic 
> “baseGenerator”, which you could instantiate, and then call the 
> selectors on in order to generate all the classes.  Not ideal, but 
> functional, and the implementation would be hidden from the end users, 
> so they’d have to download the code in order to discover how inelegant 
> we are ;)

I guess that would be the best option then, a factory object. Anyone a 
brilliant idea?
Alex
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