[Drawkit] DKGuide position mayhem

[Alex Curylo]

On 22-Jun-08, at 9:00 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

> This is good advice, but in fact the issue is more subtle than just  
> a missing prototype, which of course you must always prevent. In  
> this case I think James ran into the following issue, which also has  
> bitten me a couple of times.
>
> The problem arises if you have two classes, each declaring a method  
> with some identical name, but differing return types:
>
> - (float)	position;
> - (int)		position;


Ah, I didn't read closely enough. That particular issue happened to be  
on my mind because I'm training some Windows programmers to take over  
a Cocoa project right now, and being Windows programmers of course  
they completely ignore any kind of warning and then pester me in  
bafflement when it doesn't work, and assumed return types due to  
lacking prototypes is one that came up this afternoon.

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