properties

In Objective-C, a property can have the following attributes applied to it: * atomic * nonatomic * assign * retain * copy The scenerio is that these attributes are applied to the properties for us but what happens if we want setting/getting a property's value to have a side-effect? In

When editing legacy code you sometimes come across the scenario where a getter and setter method has been created that performs the same job as a property would but a property wasn’t used. So you decide to tidy it and create a property for that instance variable. However the getter and setter don’t