Re: class/subclass ivars

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> If the ivars are declared in the @interface, then they are visible to all 
> subclasses and you will get an error if the names match ones declared in 
> subclasses.  If the ivars are declared in the @implementation context, then you 
> will get no error and each class will refer to its own private version.  This 
> gets a bit complicated when you refer to the ivars by name in introspection 
> (you’ll likely see confusing things if you tell KVC to directly access ivars, 
> for example).

thanks. This means that essentially (I don't use KVC) I should always 
get the expected behaviour and in the subclass I will be referring to my 
own ivar without interefering. Fine. I must look elsewhere for my 
problems then.

Riccardo