<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><html>On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Devang Patel wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Fariborz Jahanian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><blockquote type="cite">Also, given the new approach, should ObjCPropertyDecl inherit from FieldDecl, what do you think?</blockquote><div><br></div>Think of a property declaration as macro for declaring setters and getters. It really has nothing to do with fields.</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Is it possible to use properties for decls that are not FieldDecl ? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Properties are for setter and getter usage. The fact that they use an ivar is implementation details. In fact, a @dynamic property leaves the implementation to the user as he/she wishes.</div><div><br></div><div>- fariborz</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-</div><div>Devang</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>