On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:25 PM, John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has this always been the case? I don't see any listing of "Properties" in > documentation.
It's a new feature in ObjC 2.0, known as "dot syntax". It's syntactic sugar for accessors and mutators, and is orthogonal to properties. The compiler will translate a dot-syntax rvalue to an accessor call (for example, NSLog(foo.bar) becomes NSLog([foo bar])), and a dot-syntax lvalue becomes a mutator call (foo.bar = 5 becomes [foo setBar:5]). It dovetails nicely with properties, but neither feature requires the other. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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]
