@interface MyClass : NSObject
{
@private
int someVar; // Can only be accessed by instances of MyClass
@public
int aPublicVar; // Can be accessed by any object
}
@end
@interface MySecondClass : MyFirstClass // Note the inheritance
{
@private
double secondClassCitizen;
}
@end
@implementation MySecondClass
- (id)init {
if (self = [super init]) {
// We can access publicNumber because it's public;
// ANYONE can access it.
publicNumber = 5;
// We can access protectedLetter because it's protected
// and it is declared by a superclass; @protected variables
// are available to subclasses.
protectedLetter = 'z';
// We can't access privateBool because it's private;
// only methods of the class that declared privateBool
// can use it
privateBool = NO; // COMPILER ERROR HERE
// We can access secondClassCitizen directly because we
// declared it; even though it's private, we can get it.
secondClassCitizen = 5.2;
}
return self;
}
@interface SomeOtherClass : NSObject
{
MySecondClass *other;
}
@end
@implementation SomeOtherClass
- (id)init {
if (self = [super init]) {
other = [[MySecondClass alloc] init];
// Neither MyFirstClass nor MySecondClass provided any
// accessor methods, so if we're going to access any ivars
// we'll have to do it directly, like this:
other->publicNumber = 42;
// If we try to use direct access on any other ivars,
// the compiler won't let us
other->protectedLetter = 'M'; // COMPILER ERROR HERE
other->privateBool = YES; // COMPILER ERROR HERE
other->secondClassCitizen = 1.2; // COMPILER ERROR HERE
}
return self;
}