Re: Setter Gettor method style

[Martin Häcker]

Hi there!

I must admit that you see me a bit confused here. I am a loving OS X 
user and also a big (though admittedly new) fan of GnuStep. What I am 
searching for is a programming style with wich it would be easiest 
for me to cross the boundaries and also do some programming for 
GnuStep.

Now on this particular (and to me it seems pretty basic) feature I 
don't really know what to do. Apple seems to settle on the approach 
that "some sort of garbage collection" is used through autorelease, 
while you GnuStep guys prepare the foundation (and soon the appkit 
too) for use with "real" garbage collection.

So I for myself can follow both your arguments Nicola (which are also 
raised by Marcel Weiher and Marco Sheurer on the OS X mailing list) 
as the arguments of Apple that Speed isn't so important especially 
for a newbie and thus the "easier" pattern should be used for all 
newly written code, while the Collection classes will not do so and 
instead use the different non autoreleased accessor scheme.

<rant> Well... as soon as GnuStep is exclusively used with Garbage 
Collection this won't be an issue anymore on that platform, but I 
don't know if Apple ever wants to introduce Garbage Collection into 
their side of the framework.</rant>

Would it be reasonable to declare one as the standard and document 
whenever you choose the other one (because of speed/ simplicity for 
the user)?

What do you think should be the standard then? What if it differs 
from what Apple uses?

Sorry, for this long posting...

Peace, Martin
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