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		igorgue on March 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Objective-C is Hard You know what I really dislike about Objective-C is that is really inconsistent with properties and messages, at one point I said out loud: JUST PICK ONE! Coming from Python this is a big thing for me, I like when there's only one right way to do things. P.S. My only experience with Objective-C is with the iOS SDK.

wvs on March 6, 2012 [–]

You may already know this, but properties are just sugar for messages and instance variables. Their only difference is a shorter syntax.

(...plus some extra runtime data, but you don't usually notice that.)

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