How about taking a look at the Google ObjC style guide? https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide.xml https://google-styleguide.googlecode.co

How about taking a look at the Google ObjC style guide? https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide.xml https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide... I'm not convinced by private properties either. Use ARC and just define your ivars in the implementation.