Synthesizing a property without instance variables

Question

I thought I understood @property and @synthesize, but I did some experimenting and I can\'t figure out why the below (what I thought was broken) code works.

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Answer 1

I want to add that although the instance variable is automatically created, it's named the same as the property. By doing this, you may get bugs in your code later. So, besides preventing the case of not automatically generating on some architectures, you should always create the instance variable so that you don't get anything unexpected later on down the road.