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traslation: i made that bug 15 years ago and have been waiting for it to matter. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 9 points 7 months ago

What does "private method" mean in this context? Did you make use of an undocumented endpoint of the iOS API?

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Objective-C does not enforce method access (e.g. private methods) at the runtime level. If you are sufficiently determined, there are no restrictions on what methods you can call, unlike Java or C# (AFAIK).

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago

Java absolutely lets you do that with Reflections. You're not supposed to, and it's painfully slow, but the JVM is only marginally smarter than javac (and that's saying something) so there's nothing actually stopping you.