Question

I have been playing with objective C a little and am finding it a great language..

Coming from C# i found pointers a little hard but now i understand the concept and how to use them..

ie:

MyObject* x = [[myObject alloc] callinitializer];

which create a new object on the heap and a pointer on the stack..

but can somebody please explain why to access the objects properties you do this:

[x setsomeprop: @"I Like Pizza"];

instead of this:

[*x setsomeprop: @"With Pineapple"];

without the dereferencing star arent we just working with the pointer instead of the object itself??

Confuesd!

Thanks

Daniel

Answer 1

No. The bracket syntax is a language feature specifically for objects – it dereferences the pointer automatically.