Use @property when you want a pseudo-variable or something that might be conceptually considered a "property" of the object, i.e. to do this:auto blah = thing.someProperty; thing.someProperty = blahblah;
This is basically what I suspected. But why write: @property int getValue() { return(value); } When you could just have a public field: int value; That lets you set and get the value without the parens anyways? thanks, Eric