On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Hamish Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:30 PM, john darnell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just read Hillegass' chapter that introduces Key-Value coding. > >> My question is, if this is such a necessary thing, why didn't the >> designers simply design the compiler to auto-generate setter and getter >> functions as per the requisite style in the first place? > > I haven't read Hillegaas' latest book, but perhaps in a less > introductory chapter he will go on to talk about @synthesise, which > does exactly what you're looking for.
Also even without @synthesize, KVC will work just fine with no accessors present. The KVC implementation will happily extract the value directly from your instance variable by using its name, or put a new value into it. Mike _______________________________________________ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
