On May 22, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: > On 21 May 2015, at 19:55, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: >> On May 21, 2015, at 10:40 , Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote: >>> >>> I must have misinterpreted the question. I had understood Alex wanted a >>> build option to turn off the auto-synthesis of properties, so the compiler >>> could complain at every conflation of ivars with @propertys. >> >> You didn’t misinterpret the question, but there’s no such build setting, so >> you have to solve the problem indirectly. >> >> — You turn on the @synthesize warning. >> >> — The warning message tells you when you’ve omitted a @synthesize. >> >> — You add the “new-style” @synthesize: >> >> @synthesize myProperty = _myProperty; >> >> — Then all of your old naked ‘myProperty’ ivar references produce compile >> errors. QED. >> >> Changing an old-style ‘@synthesize myProperty;’ to the new style leads to a >> similar result, but there’s no initial warning message to lead you there by >> the hand. > > That seems pointless, as auto-synthesis already names the backing ivar it > creates _myProperty. Looking at the original thread "Stupid Cocoa question. > How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?” > that spawned this, just deleting all the ivar declarations and @synthesize > directives might be a better idea, then direct ivar accesses don’t find > anything named myProperty and will error out directly. Or synthesize all > properties with a name nobody is using yet for the backing ivar, if you have > some that use _foo, or mFoo and others that just use foo.
Yeah, but I just tested it this yesterday and it doesn't appear to do that. It creates an underlying myProperty ivar for a myProperty property, not an underlying _myProperty ivar. I'll send the source when in get in the office in an hour, so you can test for yourself if you want to. Cheers, Alex Zavatone _______________________________________________ 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
