#import in objective C: Am I doing this wrong?

Question

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In My code I have two classes which should know of each others existence. So I use an instance variable which points to t

Answer 1

In the header, use forward declaration:

@class IRCConnection;

@interface MainMenuController : NSViewController {    
    IRCConnection *ircConnection; // ok
}

In the source file (.m), do #import.

Answer 2

you could remove the import from IRCConnection.h and use a @class statement instead.

like this:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@class MainMenuController;

@interface IRCConnection : NSObject {

then add a #import "MainMenuController.h" to IRCConnection.m

Answer 3

You cannot have circular imports. You need to break them up, or introduce some forward declarations.