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Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?
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Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?


  • Subject: Re: Stupid Cocoa question. How can you tell if the object you are looking at is a property or an ivar?
  • From: Eric Wing <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 16:57:41 -0700

On 5/20/15, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On May 20, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Eric Wing <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> You could use the Objective-C runtime to find out which things are
>> properties.
>
> You could, but isn't it a lot easier to just look at the character before
> the name and check whether it's a "."?
>
> --Jens

It depends on how pedantic you want to be. For example, if you
implemented your own setter/getter methods, the dot syntax I believe
still works even though these technically aren't properties. The Obj-C
runtime functions I'm describing makes a harder distinction and will
only list things declared with @property.

-Eric
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