Day: January 16, 2012

Setters in Cocoa

Which of the three setters is better: [objc gutter=”false”] – (void)setName:(NSString*)value{ if(value != name){ [name release]; name = [value retain]; } } – (void)setName:(NSString*)value{ id old = name; name = [value retain]; [old release]; } – (void)setName:(NSString*)value{ [name autorelease]; name = [value retain]; } [/objc] Personally I’d use the third variant, but I’m open to […]