site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com @property NSInteger myInteger; is exactly the same as: b.bum _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/site_archiver%40lists.apple... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:15 PM, D.K. Johnston wrote: Am I right in assuming that property attributes like "assign" and "nonatomic" have no effect for types like NSInteger and BOOL? i.e. @property(assign,nonatomic) NSInteger myInteger; Maybe. It is entirely architecture dependent. If your code were ever to be compiled for or run on an architecture that does not guarantee atomic assigns of BOOLs or NSIntegers, then atomic/nonatomic wouldn't mean the same thing. smime.p7s