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judofyr on Nov 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Refining Ruby

Objective-C categories are just like monkey-patching in Ruby. You can have collision with categories in Obj-C just like in Ruby, you'll just get a compiler warning (maybe error).

_ymxs on Nov 19, 2012 [–]

As of the latest Xcode linker, you also get a linker warning (which is more important in this context).

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