Re: NSTextView text coloring problem

FROM : Alastair Houghton
DATE : Thu Apr 24 17:29:37 2008

On 24 Apr 2008, at 16:10, Dave Jewell wrote:

>> On 24 Apr 2008, at 8:42 am, Graham Cox wrote:
>>
>> Aside: your ivars shouldn't start with an underscore - Apple reserves
>> such names for its own classes.

>
> Interesting - I was unaware of that convention.  Dietmar Planitzer 
> provides something of an alternative view here:
>
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2004/Jan/msg01976.html
>
> It can be summarised as: if your ivars clash with Apple's, the 
> compiler will barf anyway...


Or you could use $ instead of _.  $ works just fine in identifiers, 
even if it does make your program look like it's written in Perl (spit).

Not that I do that myself; I tend just to name my instance variables 
without prefixes.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

--
http://alastairs-place.net