Objective-C : (private / public properties) making a property readonly for outside class calls and readwrite for self calls

Question

Would you know a way to make a property readonly for outside calls and readwrite for inside calls ?

I\'ve read times ago somthing that seemed like

In the .h

Answer 1

In the .m, you shouldn't put @property again. I'm not sure what effect that has, though. Did you mean to use @synthesize?

Note that theDate will be read/write inside the class implementation anyway, regardless of being readonly to the outside world.