On Apr 5, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Richard Somers wrote:
I have also been looking through the WebKit framework and noticed
that they will hide ALL of the instance variables in another class
like this.
@interface WebView : NSView {
@private
WebViewPrivate *_private;
}
Can anyone shed light on this practice of hiding ivars? Is it mainly
something that is being done by the framework developers and
generally is not applicable to application developers? Why does
Apple do this?
Wikipedia can explain it best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_binary_interface_problem -> jp
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