On Sep 19, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Jim Thomason wrote: > I'm refactoring and updating a lot of my older code, and one of the > things I'm finally looking into is declaring things as properties. > > But...what's the point? > [...] > Is there something else I'm not seeing or some other utility to them > that I don't yet understand?
One thing you get is automatic KVO change notifications. When you set a property through its setter, you don't have to use -willChangeValueForKey: and -didChangeValueForKey: in order to trigger -observeValueForKeyPath: messages for those objects observing the property (via -addObserver:). Regards Markus -- __________________________________________ Markus Spoettl _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
