Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Just a quick question if I may, I have always (since learning obj-c) written int properties as follows…
@property(nonatomic, assign) int myValue;
I am now thinking that this might be overkill and I might as well write…
@property int myValue;
Just curious, I know that “assign” is the default behaviour and that “nonatomic” can be fractionally faster …
all the best
Gary
Well, the question of declaring atomicity is a separate one from whether you explicitly declare attributes that are the default. The former will depend on the nature of your code — is there likely to be contentious multithread access to the property?
Regarding the latter, it’s mostly a matter of style, but in general I think you should err on the side of explicit clarity. Exactly how many seconds of your life does it cost to type those extra few keystrokes?