Re: NSTextView text coloring problem

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Thu Apr 24 19:17:49 2008

Is the $ usage an extension? That doesn't sound like regular C to me.


Alastair Houghton wrote:
> 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.
>
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