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Darwin runtime environment, Which Objective-C?, Which Objective-C?, Compiler Flags, Metaclass Objects, Root Classes

(see also Cocoa class library)

compiler flags, Compiler Flags

metaclass objects and, Metaclass Objects

root classes, Root Classes

-dataRepresentationOfType: method, Archiving Descendants of NSObject

-dealloc method, Calling deallocation methods, Creating, copying, and freeing objects, Reference counting, Manual Memory Management, Maintaining an object’s reference count, Deallocating an object

memory management, Manual Memory Management

-release method and, Reference counting, Maintaining an object’s reference count, Deallocating an object

deallocation methods, calling/writing, Calling deallocation methods

declarations, Declaring an interface–Declaring an interface, Inheritance and Subtyping, Declaring a method, Private methods, Declaring a category, Declaring a category, Declaring a protocol, Declarations–Type qualifiers, Class Declarations and Definitions

categories, Private methods, Declaring a category

classes, Inheritance and Subtyping, Declaring a category, Class Declarations and Definitions

interface, Declaring an interface–Declaring an interface

methods, Declaring a method (see methods, declaring)

protocols, Declaring a protocol

-decodeObject method, Archiving Descendants of NSObject

deep copies of objects, Copying an Object

-deepCopy method, Calling copy methods, Creating, copying, and freeing objects

-deepen method, Calling copy methods, Creating, copying, and freeing objects

@defs directive, Expanding Directives, Using @defs

delegates, redirecting messages to, Forwarding Messages, NSObject Forwarding

dereference operator (->), Implementing a method

-description method, Identifying objects and classes, Identifying objects and classes

+descriptionForInstanceMethod: method, Information about methods

-descriptionForMethod: method, Information about methods

designated initializers, Writing creation methods–Sample code for initialization

directives, Compiler and Preprocessor Directives–Using @"string”, Preprocessor Symbols

compiler, Compiler and Preprocessor Directives–Using @"string”

preprocessor, Preprocessor Symbols

dispatch, dynamic, Dynamic Dispatch, Class Objects

-doesNotRecognize: method, Error handling, Object Forwarding

-doesNotRecognizeSelector: method, Error handling, NSObject Forwarding

dynamic loading, Dynamic Loading

dynamic message-sending, Dynamic Dispatch, Class Objects

dynamic type checking, Dynamic Typing, Dynamic typing