On 06 Apr 2014, at 8:44 pm, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> I thought about mentioning it, but figured it might already sound a bit > complicated. Isn't 'nonatomic' the default? If not, I can't actually find the > documentation about it. Also, if 'atomic' is the default, won't performance > suffer with all those unnecessary locks? It is for these two reasons that, from years of conditioning, I can watch my fingers type "(nonatomic " automatically and as if my magic as soon as I finish typing "@property " ... The atomic vs. nonatomic default is a peculiarity of Obj-C that never seemed to be well documented or explained when properties were first introduced. b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician Zygoat Creative Technical Services http://www.zygoat.ca _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com