>>If you’re 64-bit only (or if you require Lion or better), there’s no real 
>>reason to explicitly declare the ivars these days.
>
> As others have pointed out, this is not true. There are practical differences 
> between declaring and not declaring the ivar explicitly. I almost never 
> declare the ivar explicitly, but once in a while I need it to show up in the 
> debugger or to be available in a subclass, and then I must declare it 
> explicitly. m.

TBH what I don't get is why this cannot be changed in LLVM instead -
then we would not have the 64-bit/10.7 restrictions.

Of course it would not change what's happening in the runtime but I
guess most of people only care what they need to type anyway.
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