From 7ac075c21af5d61914ae3b7efbf8e55e8aa8bc70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <saurik@saurik.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:45:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated documentation for new constructor.messages build.

---
 website/index.html | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/index.html b/website/index.html
index e516555..55ca65b 100644
--- a/website/index.html
+++ b/website/index.html
@@ -80,16 +80,27 @@ cy# sel.call(new UIView, [UIHardware fullScreenApplicationContentRect])
 cy# new Selector("initWithFrame:")
 @selector(initWithFrame:)</xmp>
 
-<p>As one would expect from JavaScript, objects have a property called constructor that references their class, and classes have a property called prototype that gives you access to their messages. These can even be traded around and reassigned, with the results fully mapping back to the Objective-C runtime.</p>
+<p>As one would expect from JavaScript, objects have a property called constructor that references their class. You can also add methods along the prototype chain to instances. Eventually, all objects go through Instance, where you can put functions that should be available for all Objective-C classes.</p>
+
+<xmp>cy# Instance.prototype.getMethod = function (sel) { return class_getInstanceMethod(this, sel); }
+{}
+cy# NSObject.getMethod(@selector(init))
+0x801354
+cy# NSObject.prototype.getMethod = function (sel) { return "ark"; }
+{}
+cy# NSObject.getMethod(@selector(init))
+"ark"</xmp>
+
+<p>Given that sending messages is actually a different namespace than function resolution, it is important to separate out the analog of a "prototype" in the world of Objective-C from that in JavaScript. Therefore, a field called "messages" (may change) is also added to Class objects. These messages can even be traded around and reassigned, with the results fully mapping back to the Objective-C runtime.</p>
 
 <xmp>cy# var view = [new UIView init]
 cy# view.constructor
 "UIView"
-cy# view.constructor.prototype.description
+cy# view.constructor.messages['description']
 0x309d84f5
 cy# [view description]
 "<UIView: 0x229bc0; frame = (0 0; 0 0); layer = <CALayer: 0x229d60>>"
-cy# view.constructor.prototype.description = function () { return "not!"; }
+cy# view.constructor.messages['description'] = function () { return "not!"; }
 {}
 cy# [view description]
 "not!"</xmp>
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