isKindOf: - GSObjCIsKindOf

[Marko Mikulicic]

Hello,

Is there a way, knowing the name of two classes, test for
the isKindOf relation without istantiating the receiver object:

I have noticed that those methods in NSObject are defined so:


- (BOOL) isKindOf: (Class)aClassObject
{
  return [self isKindOfClass: aClassObject];
}

+ (BOOL) isKindOfClass: (Class)aClass
{
  if (aClass == [NSObject class])
    return YES;
  return NO;
}

- (BOOL) isKindOfClass: (Class)aClass
{
  Class class = GSObjCClass(self);

  return GSObjCIsKindOf(class, aClass);
}


Is there a way other than using GSObjCIsKindOf
directly to look if one class inherits from the other one ?

(I have no instances, only classes converted from strings).


Thanks


Marko