Re: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard

[Graham J Lee]

On 5 Nov 2007, at 13:20, hns@computer.org wrote:

> I just found this interesting article
>
> http://gemma.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/ 
> Articles/chapter_5_section_5.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163- 
> CH17-SW6
>
> which states that properties and KVC are "orthogonal" and that
> property acessors using the dot notation is calling getter/setter
> methods and NOT setValue:forKey(Path):

That's supposedly for performance purposes - apparently there are  
people who care that the KVC mechanism is too slow.

Graham.