Re: dia2code objc

[Björn Gohla]

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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 10:22, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am Dienstag den, 26. März 2002, um 15:25, schrieb Björn Gohla:
> > perhaps access control should then not be prohibitive but
> > informative, to
> > tell a user when an object is being used in violation of its design
> > rationale.
>
> Don't know how plain GNU compilers do it, but with the Apple
> tweaked one I get something like:
>
> NSObject.m:544: warning: instance variable `isa' is @protected;
> this will be a hard error in the future

my original idea was to have this kind of warning for private or protected 
methods. 

> when trying to access a protected variable. Is this what you
> have in mind?

to my embarassment i was not even aware there were attribute visibility 
directives in objc ;) . i have never so far seen them in use. using accessors 
for public variables seems more common and more powerful too.

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