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mlRe: @property problem
FROM : Wade Tregaskis
DATE : Tue Feb 12 20:35:55 2008

> Yes, and that's why I believe Jens is telling you that it's OK to 
> use the same prefix for ivars as anyone else that you're sharing 
> code with: Because any name clashes would be immediately apparent. 
> This in contrast to, for example, method names.


Note that this isn't true in the 64-bit runtime, where ivars don't 
have to be declared publicly.  There, AFAIK, ivars are uniqued by name 
still, so unexpected clashes are possible (and wouldn't be detected at 
compile time, necessarily... someone less lazy than me should write 
some test cases and find out :) ).

Wade

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