Re: class variables

2009-10-06 Thread Colin Howarth
On 7 Oct, 2009, at 01:53, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Colin Howarth wrote: I'm coming across the odd instance where the use of a class variable would seem to make sense. I can do this with a static definition in the class implementation file, I suppose. Question is:

Re: class variables

2009-10-06 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Colin Howarth wrote: > I'm coming across the odd instance where the use of a class variable would > seem to make sense. > > I can do this with a static definition in the class implementation file, I > suppose. > > Question is: is this particularly frowned upon in th

Re: class variables

2009-10-06 Thread Luke the Hiesterman
The canonical implementation of a singleton class uses a static to hold the singleton instance. There are other examples in Apple sample code of using class statics. So, I would say that it's not frowned upon as long as there's a good reason to do it. Luke On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Colin

class variables

2009-10-06 Thread Colin Howarth
Hi, I'm coming across the odd instance where the use of a class variable would seem to make sense. I can do this with a static definition in the class implementation file, I suppose. Question is: is this particularly frowned upon in the Cocoa world? If so, why? Thanks, --colin __