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Re: property name-to-accessor munging? (was: Dot Syntax docs missing?)
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Re: property name-to-accessor munging? (was: Dot Syntax docs missing?)


  • Subject: Re: property name-to-accessor munging? (was: Dot Syntax docs missing?)
  • From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:31:07 -0700

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 20 juil. 08 à 10:33, Ken Thomases a écrit :
>
>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
>>
>>> I realize after all this, it's not really the Dot Syntax I need. I need
>>> to know how a property name (starts with lower-case letter) is
>>> transliterated into the getter/setter names.
>>
>> The dot syntax uses the getter and setting specified for the property in
>> the @property declaration.  As documented[1], if you don't explicitly supply
>> getter or setter names in that directive, it defaults to the property name
>> for the getter and "set" plus the property name with its first letter
>> capitalized plus a trailing colon for the setter.
>
>
> It also has a special case for boolean where getter may be prefixed by "is":
> enabled => isEnabled / setEnabled:.

This is not true. Each (read/write) property defines one setter and
one getter, there is no special case for BOOL properties. If you want
the getter to be called "isEnabled", you have to specify that:

@property (getter = isEnabled) enabled;

--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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