Question

When a method is declared in .h file is detected by intelisense and the warnings are not raised, when the method is used in .m file.

When a method is declared only in .m file, the intelisense doesn’t detect it if is declared below the method where is being used.

To avoid the warnings there is a flag in xcode, but I prefer don’t disable it.

There is any way to declare the methods in .m in order to be detected by intelisense and without the warning?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Two ways to fix it:

Either: Use a class extension to declare private methods at the top of the .m file:

@interface Foo ()

- (void)privateMethod;

@end

Or: Upgrade to Xcode 4.3.1, which contains a more recent version of clang. This newer version of the compiler does not need previously declared methods to call them in the same compilation unit.

Class extensions are still good for compatibility or to declare private properties, though.