Well damn, @package accomplishes the 'compilation unit' request.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:36 PM, T.J. Usiyan <griotsp...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> > 2) Technically, nothing is truly private in Objective-C, so let's stop
>> > trying to completely prevent people from using private APIs.
>>
>>
>> contradiction++
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
> Not quite. You actually CAN hide the ivars and it is odd to expose them
> because you have the ability to hide them. Exposing the accessor method
> INSTEAD of the ivar is usually better. I know that it is not always
> convenient and hope that we eventually get the ability to access self's
> ivars if we are in the same compilation unit, but until then, exposing
> accessors seems like a better option.
>
> TJ
>
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