In article <2009080411000075249-preston at (no spam) stupidcom>,
Preston <preston at (no spam) stupid.com> wrote:
On 2009-08-04 08:15:25 -0600, Linda <1anmldr1 at (no spam) gmail.com> said:
Trying to understand creating getters and setters using the at (no spam) property
declaration.
I was listening to the Intro to Objective-C and Cocoa Touch video from
iTunes.
Here is the earlier line of code
-(void)setParents:(NSArray *)parents;
Here is the equivalent line of code
at (no spam) property(readwrite) NSArray *parents;
I understand about the readwrite being the default and that it does
not need to be used. I understand about the at (no spam) property now. What I
don't understand is the proper use of parenthesis. In the first there
is (NSArray *)parents; and in the replacement (equivalent) code, it is
NSArray *parents without any parenthesis.
Any advice on this?
Linda
It's just how the syntax was defined by Apple, for whatever reasons.
I suspect the property declaration has that syntax because it's sort-of
like a variable declaration. So they made the syntax like a
declaration, plus extra stuff at the beginning. The method declaration
is a very different thing, so it's not surprising it has a different
syntax.
