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
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