On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
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>> > Does this sound similar? Objective-C obviously already has a
On May 22, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
The design goals of properties and GC were to make Cocoa developers
more productive and to give Cocoa developers a better set of tools
to take advantage of modern Macintosh hardware. That the
technologies lower the barriers to entry is ce
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > Does this sound similar? Objective-C obviously already has access
> limiters,
> > but disassociating the object and property storage would eli
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Obviously - but *which* Cocoa developers? I suspect that many veterans would
> categorize these additions as premature optimization - I can't speak for
> anyone else, but it's been years since I needed to write an accessor
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 22, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
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>> I think many of the additions in Object-C 2.0 and the addition of garbage
>> collection is *precisely* a case of changing Cocoa to resemble other
>> platforms (i.e. Jav
