Naming conventions for BOOL Obj-C 2 properties?

Question

I have a readonly BOOL property. What is dominant naming pattern here?

Background: for plain old method declarations, the accepted pattern

- (BOOL)is         


        

Answer 1

The convention is definitely to do is... for BOOL getters. The reason you see the property set like that in CalStore is most likely because it's read-only and written that way for basic readability of the header file, since:

@property(readonly) isEditable;

is generally easier to read than:

@property(readonly, getter=isEditable) editable;

For the first type of property, in your implementation you could do either of:

@synthesize isEditable = editable;

or simply define the accessor:

- (BOOL)isEditable(void) { return editable; }

This leaves the interface file (the header) more easily readable by a potential user.