By now, most of you know I'm working through Aaron Hillegass's book.
Along the way, I'm trying to utilize Objective-C 2.0 constructs where
I am aware of differences. Hillegass is using explicitly declared
setters and getters. I am using @property and @synthesize. In his -
(void)setString: method, he writes
- (void)setString:(NSString *)c
{
c = [c copy];
[string release];
string = c;
NSLog(@"The string: %@", string);
[self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
}
I have declared my property like this
@property (copy) NSString * string;
So, now I can call self.string = newstring; Great. But it seems that
if I do this, I'll be writing the last two lines of the explicit
setter each time I change the string. For simple projects, this is
obviously not a big deal, but I am curious how to deal with this as
projects get larger. Repetitive code would eventually be a maintenance
nightmare.
Obviously there isn't anything to stop me from writing the explicit
setter, but I wanted to check with the list and see if there is a more
elegant way to handle this issue. Should I write the setter explicitly
and then continue to use the dot syntax for getting?
Thanks as always for your help.
Jamie
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