Comments on: Private Properties http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/ injuries sustained turning indy Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Corey http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Corey Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:55:39 +0000 http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/?p=459#comment-190 @Chris Yes you can, but using KVO seems even easier to me than implementing the setter. This was one of the reasons that properties were made, to stop us coders from writing error prone getters and setters. You can always choose the method that works best. I use KVO since it protects me from myself. @Chris Yes you can, but using KVO seems even easier to me than implementing the setter. This was one of the reasons that properties were made, to stop us coders from writing error prone getters and setters. You can always choose the method that works best. I use KVO since it protects me from myself.

]]> By: Corey http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Corey Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:52:53 +0000 http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/?p=459#comment-189 @Matt I like the brackets aesthetically, it is just when you forget one that bothers me. I did install <a href="http://github.com/ciaran/xcode-bracket-matcher/tree/master" rel="nofollow">Bracket Matcher</a> which helps, but you still lose some code sense. @Arne I didn't use Objective-C too much before 2.0, so dot syntax doesn't really look out of place to me. In fact <em>all</em> of Objective-C was very "alien" to me at first. As with anything, I think that over time you get used to it. @Matt
I like the brackets aesthetically, it is just when you forget one that bothers me. I did install Bracket Matcher which helps, but you still lose some code sense.

@Arne
I didn’t use Objective-C too much before 2.0, so dot syntax doesn’t really look out of place to me. In fact all of Objective-C was very “alien” to me at first. As with anything, I think that over time you get used to it.

]]> By: Chris Ryland http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Chris Ryland Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:48:12 +0000 http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/?p=459#comment-188 "Another issue is w hen you need to react to state changes of an ivar. This can be mitigated using KVO." Can't you simply implement the setter method and handle it right when it changes? “Another issue is w hen you need to react to state changes of an ivar. This can be mitigated using KVO.”

Can’t you simply implement the setter method and handle it right when it changes?

]]> By: Arne http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Arne Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:24:31 +0000 http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/?p=459#comment-187 Personally, I really like the dot-syntax for properties. The convenience of visually separating properties from method-calls outweighs the slightly alien look of the dot-syntax in obj-c 2.0 :) Personally, I really like the dot-syntax for properties. The convenience of visually separating properties from method-calls outweighs the slightly alien look of the dot-syntax in obj-c 2.0 :)

]]> By: MattjDrake http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/07/private-properties/comment-page-1/#comment-186 MattjDrake Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:11:08 +0000 http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/?p=459#comment-186 I generally stick to dot notation as much as possible since I find using brackets clumsy. That is mostly because of what I was used to in other programming languages I guess. I generally stick to dot notation as much as possible since I find using brackets clumsy. That is mostly because of what I was used to in other programming languages I guess.

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