On Sep 11, 2012, at 4:28 , Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote:
> 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.
Or maybe synthesizing accessors should not baked into language, but rather part
of (user-extensible) libraries.
Just a thought,
Marcel
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