Question

I have a few variables in my iPhone app as class instance variables (which they need to be because they are used within multiple methods of that class.

However, I don’t want them to be exposed to the parent class. I have seen the @private keyword, but I am not sure if this is the appropriate use or not.

Does anyone how to keep instance variables as private to the class?

This is probably an Objective-C question as well, and not necessarily specific to the iphone.

Many thanks,
Brett

Answer 1

@private makes your intention clear and is the way to go.

Edit:

@interface YourClass : NSObject {
@private
    int privateData;
@public
    int publicData;
}

// method declarations....

@end