On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM, WT <[email protected]> wrote: > First, thanks to all who responded to my question. > > On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > >> The 'foo' in 'self.foo' is a property. The 'foo' in 'just foo' is *not* a >> property, but an instance variable. It's really important to know that the >> two are entirely different things, even when they are named the same. >> Whether the property foo even uses an instance variable foo is an >> implementation detail of your class. A property *may* be implemented using >> an instance variable for its storage requirements, and the instance variable >> *may* have the same name as the property, but neither of those things are >> requirements. > > I have trouble understanding the above. How can a property be implemented, > if not by using an instance variable?
If I implement the methods -foo and -setFoo:, I've just implemented the property foo. -- Clark S. Cox III [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
