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Write that method in a category of NSObject and you’ll have it now. Objetive-C is a very extensible language with lots of syntactic sugar to help us out. Also, meta programming is lots of fun, but impossible without diving into the runtime guts which is part of the fun.

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The only thing that stops me from doing it that there is a well established pattern of passing `&error` which tells me that the function can error and that I could handle it.

I’m sort of looking for what 2nd order and systemics effects `mpw` might expect.

To me, Swift is a bit more annoying with `if let`. Seems like it might provide a benefit, but it’s not so compelling to me. The compile times are so much slower so as to turn me off completely.

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