[Biococoa-dev] converting from 3-letter code to 1-letter code

[Koen van der Drift]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Charles Parnot wrote:

> when you call:
>
>     NSString *oneLetterString = [self  
> convertThreeLetterStringToOneLetterString: aString symbolSet: aSet];
>
> self is the target, and it is the class object. So indeed you are  
> trying to call the class method and the compiler complains.
>

Hmm, still don't see what I am doing wrong :(

Why is this different from:

     NSString *name = [self name];

     -(NSString *) name
     {
         return name;
     }


cheers,

- Koen.