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I'm going to have to start referring to this post when I explain why I like objective c. Usually people just give me this crazy stare like I'm some kind of moron.

One thing though, if you spell a method name wrong, it will still compile. It's only a warning that "the object may not respond to that selector". Of course if you have warnings as errors turned on, then of course it will error.

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> One thing though, if you spell a method name wrong, it will still compile. It's only a warning that "the object may not respond to that selector".

And it's important to understand that: while Objective-C's "C" part is statically typed, Objective-C's objective model comes from Smalltalk and remains essentially dynamically typed. That's in fact what `id` is: a purely dynamic type. This is quite unlike Java or OCaml.

i guess im abit overboard trying to make my point. but you are right, no error, just warnings.

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