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Re: Damn sisters :-)

You don't understand -- this *is* the cleaner way. In fact, you should generally use accessor methods inside a class's implementation as well -- that way you don't have to worry if you later change the implementation of your data storage from, say, an instance variable to a value stored in a dictionary or some such. While it does seem like (and is) a bit of extra overhead, it's a cleaner model to clearly encapsulate the information inside the class vs the information exposed outside of it.

Rollie


On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 10:11 AM, Riccardo Santato wrote:

You are not supposed to have access to another class's data. Create
accessor methods to access the data. For instance,
- (id)myInstanceVariable
{
return myInstanceVariable;
}

I've already thought about this option but I supposed I was rather stupid
to use a "dummy" function just to pass a variable... I hoped there was a
cleaner way :-))

--
Riccardo Santato
www.riccardosantato.com
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