On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:14 AM, John Tsombakos wrote: > (and will also change to use the underscore ivar names too - I had done that > previously, but...well, didn't this time.)
I recommend using some other prefix system instead of the underscore, for two reasons: 1. Apple reserves the underscore prefix for their own use, so you could, at least theoretically, clash with a superclass ivar this way, and 2. KVO’s “access instance variables directly” (mis)feature recognizes the underscore prefix. I like to give it a prefix that KVO doesn’t know about so that I can be sure never to end up accidentally accessing the ivars of another object without going through the proper accessors. 3. If I use an ivar prefix that no one else uses (as far as I know), then I can make my class into a subclass of something from a publicly available framework without needing to worry about ivar name clashes. Charles_______________________________________________ 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
