On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> This is true, but your example of non-scalability does reflect a poor > approach that you wouldn't be likely to follow in practice. > > A tag is 32 bits, so can represent 2^32 different states, if used wisely. > Dividing this into bitfields would allow you to partition it into several > properties, for example four different colour properties, each with 256 > possible colours each. Even when used as a bitfield, I'd still argue it is not good design. (It might be an expedient hack to get something done, and if you are happy with that as a solution, great.) It overloads the tag to imply control behavior/appearance, while at the same time preventing users of your class from using the tag for its original purpose. (Yes, I realize that the the user of the custom table view is the same person as the provider of the custom table view.) - Jim _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
