Question

I was just wondering, when accessing properties from within the class, do I have to do [self someProperty] or self.someProperty? Or is it safe to refer to it simply as someProperty?

EDIT: Given that the name of the property doesn’t conflict/shawdow….

Answer 1

[self someProperty] or self.someProperty? or can is it safe to refer to it simply as someProperty?

Any one is fine. But I prefer not to use self when being in scope of class.

someValue = 10 ;
[ self someValue ] = 20 ;
self.someValue = 30 ;

All the above three statements are going the modify the interface variable someValue.