Re: Setter Gettor method style

[Yen-Ju Chen]

 There is an article on stepwise talking about that:
 http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/2002-06-11.01.html/
 Maybe it helps.
 Some macros in GNUstep can minimize the typing,
 like ASSIGN, TEST_RELEASE.

 Yen-Ju Chen

> From: Martin Häcker  <mhaecker@mac.com>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Setter Gettor method style
> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:18:00 +0200
>
> >  >   - (void) setTitle: (NSString *)newTitle {
> > >          [title autorelease];
> >
> > Here, there  is not  advantage to wait  before releasing  title.  It's
> > owned by the object, it can  be released directly. If anybody has been
> > interested in title it will have  retained it long ago. Since title is
> > overwritten immediately, it cannot  be retrieved after this statement,
> > so you can as well use release.
> >
> > >          title = [newTitle copy];
> > >          // or retain, depending on object & usage
> >  >   }
>
> :) I certainly don't want to question your wizardry, but as far as I 
> understand this this style was chosen because of something like this:
>
>         ...
>         NSString *str = [myDocument title];
>         ...
>         [myDocument setTitle:@"cool"];
>         ...
>         NSLog(@"I've got a %@", str);
>
> And the string should remain valid for the rest of the routine. (Perhaps 
> this also has something to do with OS X having no Garbage Collection)
>
> Peace,
> Martin
> --
> dont.wanna.tell
> [ot]coder - hehe
>
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