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macOS Another Term For Getters And Setters?
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No. You should probably look that up.
hahaha alrighty... sorry for the mistake. but setting up an iVar as a property and synthesizing it should provide you the setters and getters hehehe thats what I was thinking.
Mutators just sounds so dark and scary!
I know they're often useful and unavoidable, but when i was being taught OOP they were supposed to be scary. At the time the context was that you had a private/protected variable (if it was public, it would just be accessed directly... not good design, but this was the context we were given) that could be set using a public mutator. To me this seemed like nonsense, if you are letting the variable be set with a public method, why not just make the member public?
Obviously encapsulation, being able to change private variable names, types, etc. in the future, having a standard interface, etc. is the answer, but in this particular course those things were more ephemeral.
-Lee