Call subclass’s method from its superclass

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You can, as Objective C method dispatch is all dynamic. Just call it with [self methodOfChild], which will probably generate a compiler warning (which you can silence by casting self to id).

But, for the love of goodness, don’t do it. Parents are supposed to provide for their children, not the children for their parents. A parent knowing about a sub-classes new methods is a huge design issue, creating a strong coupling the wrong way up the inheritance chain. If the parent needs it, why isn’t it a method on the parent?

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