Re: @property coding style

[David Chisnall]

On 29 Jan 2012, at 12:07, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:

> On 01/29/2012 12:56 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 29 Jan 2012, at 07:51, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> 
>>> But I do still recommend ASSIGN, ASSIGNCOPY, and to a lesser extent, 
>>> DESTROY. As these make it easier to reliably/safely manage reference 
>>> counting.
>> 
>> I forgot about those - I don't think of them as GNUstep extensions, since I 
>> have implementations of them in another header so that I can use them on OS 
>> X too - and I totally agree with Richard.  Using these makes life a lot 
>> easier, and avoids a lot of simple errors.  
> 
> Agreed, I'd be totally lost without those in my code. It has become such
> a strong habit, that using '=' to assign object pointers gives me a
> rather unpleasant feeling in my stomach.

Of course, when you're using ARC, = gives you something semantically equivalent 
to ASSIGN, but generates better code ;-)

David

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