On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:29:20 -0700, Bill Bumgarner <b...@mac.com> said:
>- synthesis "just works" (pretty much every attempt at hand-rolled atomicity I've seen has been wrong or bog slow) And even if properties did nothing for me beyond writing my accessors for me, it would still be worth it. They don't actually save me from much work; okay, I don't have to write the accessors, but I still have to say @synthesize; and they know nothing about releasing in dealloc. But before properties I used to jump through hoops just so as not to have to declare an ivar, because it was so much work to support it; with properties, that pain in my hands is gone. On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:56:20 -0700, Chris Hanson <c...@me.com> said: >Don't think of dot syntax as syntactic sugar for sending messages. Think of dot syntax as the way to access the state exposed by an object, and bracket syntax as the way to have an object do something. No, I think that's bollocks. Dot syntax is *exactly* syntactic sugar for calling the accessor, and using it correctly depends upon keeping that fact firmly in mind. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, <http://www.tidbits.com/matt/> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool! AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition! http://www.apeth.net/matt/default.html#applescriptthings _______________________________________________ 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
