On Sep 10, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> It doesn't need "all the extra scaffolding". KVC will peer quite happily into > your instance variables by default. What you don't get for free, in that > case, is KVO compliance for the property. The purpose of providing explicit > accessors is therefore twofold: > > 1. It avoids letting KVC introspect your ivars, which is a horrible hack. > > 2. It gives you automatic KVO compliance. With that said, writing these accessors *is* rather mechanical and repetitive, and it would be nice if @synthesize could create the appropriate accessors in this case. Charles _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com