Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
@property (nonatomic, readonly) BOOL isBlabla;
When speaking about properties I’m not sure what the official name for the keywords in brackets like (nonatomic, retain) is. I have referred to them as “property modifiers” and other names but that’s probably not the correct term.
How should I call this group of keywords (nonatomic, atomic, readonly, readwrite, assign, retain, strong, etc.) that can be used in the @property brackets so that everyone knows what I’m referring to?
In the closest book to me presently, they are called “property attributes”
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-2nd-Edition/dp/0321566157
A quick search of Apple’s docs yields the same word:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Chapters/ocProperties.html
And finally, the link to the specific section of the docs, which uses both “attributes” and your very own “keywords”: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Chapters/ocProperties.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH17-SW2