On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: > What exactly is this @defs keyword supposed to do?
It effectively turned an Objective-C class declaration into a standard C structure such that you could access the instance variables directly via a simple -> operator. Was mostly used for speed of access when working with poorly architected classes. ;) It has been deprecated in 32 bit and removed entirely in the modern ABI [64 bit and iPhone OS] because it, obviously, totally and completely destroys encapsulation. It also makes it impossible to implement non-fragile iVars. b.bum _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
