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Re: What's the point of @properties?
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Re: What's the point of @properties?


  • Subject: Re: What's the point of @properties?
  • From: Antonio Nunes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:31:43 +0100

On 20 Sep 2010, at 20:00, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> Did you mean "synthesized ivars"? It is important you be precise.

Yes that is what I meant.

> Automatically showing synthesized properties—or any properties at
> all—would be a bad idea, because methods have side effects, and even
> calling simple accessors at the wrong time can be detrimental to your
> program (remember, the debugger can be stopped anywhere; what if it's
> in the middle of updating the method cache in objc_msgSend, and then
> you go up a few frames into your own code?).
>
> Automatically showing synthesized ivars is a much safer operation, and
> one I too would like to see in the debugger.

Yes, that is what I'd like to see to.

Hmmm, I guess this should really move over to xcode-users if we continue the thread.

António

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References: 
 >What's the point of @properties? (From: Jim Thomason <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Markus Spoettl <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Stefan Nobis <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Antonio Nunes <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Stefan Nobis <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Antonio Nunes <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What's the point of @properties? (From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>)

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