Re: Properties GC (was Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem)

2008-05-23 Thread Michael Ash
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously - but *which* Cocoa developers? I suspect that many veterans would categorize these additions as premature optimization - I can't speak for anyone else, but it's been years since I needed to write an accessor

Re: Properties GC (was Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem)

2008-05-23 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Michael Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this sound similar? Objective-C obviously already has access limiters, but disassociating the object and property storage would eliminate the

Re: Properties GC (was Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem)

2008-05-23 Thread Andy Lee
On May 22, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: The design goals of properties and GC were to make Cocoa developers more productive and to give Cocoa developers a better set of tools to take advantage of modern Macintosh hardware. That the technologies lower the barriers to entry is