Re: Setter Gettor method style

[Martin Häcker]

>  > I am not completely sure of that, but as I understand it the Cocoa
> >  Engineer (Ali Ozer) told this pattern because of the "Foundation
> >  Contract" as he called it, that every object you get from the
> >  foundation should be valid for the scope of the method it was got in.
>
> Why not, if only all these "Contracts" were documented somewhere...

That is exactly the reason why I asked here about which style is used 
throughout GnuStep.

Do you use a "Contract" like this? Or is there some other Contract?

Sorry, I don't want to bore you with these questions.

One should also note that not all Cocoa classes from Apple currently 
use this feature. Some because they decided they should not 
(Collection classes) and others because at the time they where 
written they still where not sure which pattern would be the best, 
yet he also stated that Apple is slowly changing this as long as they 
don't introduce binary incompatibility with this.

Peace,
Martin
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