> http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1325406
>
> The problem here is that you have no knowledge of what the "_group" ivar
> represents, if anything. There are plenty of framework ivars that have been
> abandoned but left in place so as not to change the layout of the rest of
> the ivars. There are also plenty that have been re-purposed as backing store
> for something entirely different.
> So, you don't know that this ivar has anything to do with calendar groups as
> represented in iCal. The information about grouping may well be local to the
> iCal application itself and stored elsewhere. Or, worse, the ivar may be
> used (privately) by iCal while it is running, and even archived to the
> store, but might be meaningless outside of the run of the app where it was
> set.
> By all means, ask for the group relationships to be exposed publicly. But
> asking for access to a framework instance variable seems misguided.

Actually ... you are right.

I just logged them and saw the UID where in fact the _group ivar holds
a reference to a CalGroup class ...which isn't documented either.

I'll re-phrase the rdar.

cheers,
Torsten
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