Question

I’ve recently discovered that there is no need to declare a getter as a property to use the dot notation. I don’t know about other compiler versions, but this is true for Apple LLVM 3.1. Does anyone foresees any problems with it? So, basically:

 ---------Star.h----------  
 -(UInt32)age;

 ---------Star.m----------
 -(UInt32)age
 {
    //get star age
    return starAge;   
 }


 ---------RootViewController.m----------
 {
 ...
 //use this instead of [star age] even if there is no synthesized property "age" 
 NSLog(@"%i", star.age);

 ...

 }

Answer 1

Your code is perfectly acceptable. A compiler wold do something similiar if you wrote:

 ---------Star.h----------  
@property (readonly) UInt32 age;


 ---------Star.m----------
@synthesize age = starAge;