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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T17:58:04+00:00 2026-05-11T17:58:04+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How does an underscore in front of a variable in a cocoa

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How does an underscore in front of a variable in a cocoa objective-c class work?

I’ve seen this at Apple, inside UIPickerView.h:

id<UIPickerViewDataSource> _dataSource;

why’s that underscore there? Does it have a special meaning? A Convention I must know about?

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    2026-05-11T17:58:04+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 5:58 pm

    A lot of people use this for private variables, to differentiate between private variables and public variables within an object.

    It is a completely optional way of working.

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