Is using “self” ever necessary in Objective-C or maybe just a good practice? I have gone from using it all the time to not using it at all and I don’t seem to really notice any difference. Isn’t it just implied anyway?
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Is using “self” ever necessary in Objective-C or maybe just a good practice? I have gone from using it all the time to not using it at all and I don’t seem to really notice any difference. Isn’t it just implied anyway?
selfis necessary if you wish for an object to send messages to, well, itself. It is also occasionally beneficial to access properties through getters/setters, in which case you’ll also need to useself, as inself.propertynameorself.propertyname = value. (These are not equivalent topropertynameorpropertyname = value.