My favorite
would be to use @property on both, but it's one more step
against backward compatibility.
That would be my favorite, too, but I didn't do it for the very reason you
suggest.
PS: I can work on a patch for this upon request,
if needed.
I'll take you up on that offer. :-)
Russ
So, after some time spent checking that eveything (hopefully) works correctly,
I've uploaded the patch on sourceforge's tracker[1]. This is quite a huge one,
but as long as my tests were complete, it seems ok.
stan.
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