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Re: String constants and how to do them

On 25 Mar 2004, at 13:45, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> I forget where I read this (perhaps it was Aaron Hillegass's book, but
> I forget), but I read somewhere that in general it's a better idea to
> use global strings set to a constant string rather than using #define,
> as in
>
> NSString *myPref = @"My Preference";
>
> instead of
>
> #define myPref @"My Preference"
>
> Is there a reason for this? Is this even true? What do you guys use?

Yes, yes and that (roughly).

See this thread:

http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2003/10/2/75775.php

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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http://www.alastairs-place.net

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