{"id":4463,"date":"2012-03-12T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2012-03-12T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:32:29","slug":"objective-c-unversioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/objective-c-unversioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Objective-C, Unversioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/objc-language\/2012\/Mar\/msg00025.html\">Chris Lattner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/objc-language\/2012\/Mar\/msg00025.html\"><p>We&rsquo;ve had internal discussions and have explicitly decided <em>not<\/em> to version the language any more. Instead of &ldquo;Objective-C 2.0&rdquo; or some such, there is now just &ldquo;Objective-C as of Xcode 4.4&rdquo; or &ldquo;Objective-C in LLVM Compiler\/Clang 4.0&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;d like to reason about or conditionalize your code on various language features, please use the <a\n href=\"http:\/\/clang.llvm.org\/docs\/LanguageExtensions.html#feature_check\">Clang feature checking macros<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes sense to check for features when writing code, but I think version numbers are useful for talking about, documenting, and referencing the language.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lattner: We&rsquo;ve had internal discussions and have explicitly decided not to version the language any more. Instead of &ldquo;Objective-C 2.0&rdquo; or some such, there is now just &ldquo;Objective-C as of Xcode 4.4&rdquo; or &ldquo;Objective-C in LLVM Compiler\/Clang 4.0&rdquo;. If you&rsquo;d like to reason about or conditionalize your code on various language features, please use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}