LR iOS Developers Group

So, if you are like me, you tend to stub out incomplete methods or add in comments to indicate that something needs to be done in the future. I have done this using a specific and consistent pattern since I started programming. My style has always been something like this:

// FIXME make sure to finish this method out
-(void)someMethod {

}

This works fine as I have made it a consistent habit of global searching my project for FIXME before deploying. Xcode makes this soooo much easier and much more reliable with the #warning flag. So now, at least with Objective-C, my style is now this:

#warning FIXME Make sure to finish this method out
-(void)someMethod {

}

This way the compiler warns me EVERY time I build and things which used to be forgotten until right before deployment are brought to light every build.

I have also taken this a step further and changed my code snippet for NSLog to this:

#warning FIXME REMOVE
NSLog(@"Log %@",someObj);

That way, I get warnings for all my NSLog statements, so I can take them out of production code.