On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Klaus Backert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About $Null: > >> It it were a reserved word, it would be documented so. > > > The "Archives and Serializations Programming Guide for Cocoa" says: > > Keyed Archives > ... > Naming Values > ... > You should avoid using "$" as a prefix for your keys. The keyed archiver and > unarchiver use keys prefixed with "$" for internal values. Although they > test for and mangle user-defined keys that have a "$" prefix, this overhead > slows down archiving performance. > ...
This is not a reserved word. This is merely a class of keys which can result in lower archiving performance (although still perfectly correct behavior). What's being discussed here is a case where a certain *value* (not a key) results in incorrect *behavior* (not just reduced speed). Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
