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What is the standard Objective-C woll terminal convention?

I know this @property (nonatomic, getter=isWhatever) BOOL whatever;

is the standard way to declare properties BOOL

in Objective-C nowadays (see this question ).

But what is the preferred way to access this property? As far as I understand, for setter and non-setter properties BOOL

, dot notation is preferable to [someObject someProperty]

, but can't a redundant custom getter name do that?

I repeat, I am especially interested in what the agreement with the getter is: in my understanding self.whatever

, which would display [self isWhatever]

unused and getter=isWhatever

meaningless, which seems to be contradictory.

Is this an unintended side effect of the evolution of the language over time?

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Choosing a better logical name than "all" will give a better idea. EXAMPLE: character

vs isCharacter

. self.isCharacter

seems fine and arguably better than self.character

.



It would seem that using "dot notation" does not change the logical conditional "is" convention.

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IMHO dot syntax should always be used for properties and parenthesis syntax for methods (you should NEVER refer to a property method (getter / setter method)) and "is" should prefix all BOOL properties (not just the getter). The correct syntax for your property would then be myObj.isWhatever.



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