Re: Private Methods
Re: Private Methods
- Subject: Re: Private Methods
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:27:38 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:58:22 -0600, Richard Charles said:
>Apple documentation states that the "Names of most private methods in
>the Cocoa frameworks have an underscore prefix (for example, _fooData )
>to mark them as private.”
>
>I just ran into a case where one of my method names in a subclass
>replaced a private Cocoa framework method of the same name causing my
>application to crash in the next version of OS X. The private Cocoa
>framework method name did not have an underscore prefix. So the
>documentation is correct, “most” but not all private methods in the
>frameworks have an underscore prefix.
I'm not even sure "most" is true. A large number of Apple methods do not start with underscore.
>I have never bothered doing this because for one reason BF_addObject
>looks so ugly as a method name.
Me neither. I've hit only a few conflicts over the years, in which case I rename.
You can set the OBJC_PRINT_REPLACED_METHODS env var to help catch conflicts. Always a good idea with beta version of major OS releases.
Cheers,
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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