Re: Retain/Release and Properties clarification
Re: Retain/Release and Properties clarification
- Subject: Re: Retain/Release and Properties clarification
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:34:05 -0500
On Oct 7, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:23:25 -0500, Charles Srstka said:
>
>> 1. Apple reserves the underscore prefix for their own use, so you could,
>> at least theoretically, clash with a superclass ivar this way, and
>
> In addition to what Kyle replied, I'd just like to point out that prefixing your *methods* with an underscore is a very bad idea, since Apple does reserve such names and a conflict will bite you at runtime possibly affecting the binary compatibility of your app.
Huh. I thought I’d remembered Apple having that same advice for ivars, and it turns out that they *used to* discourage starting ivars with an underscore:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040816203942/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/Articles/NamingIvarsAndTypes.html
However, this isn’t on the current version of the page. So, I stand corrected regarding Apple’s advice. However, I still think it is a good idea to use a custom prefix for ivars to avoid weird effects from your ivar accidentally getting accessed by KVO or by object_setInstanceVariable.
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