iOS Setters and Getters and Underscored Property Names

Question

So I have a NSString property named description, defined as follows:

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSMutableString *description;

I\'m able

Answer 1

1) NSObject already has a method named description. Pick another name

2) Your setter is an infinite loop

But as to your actual question: The compiler will only autogenerate backing variables if you do not override both methods.

P.S. No, you can't just "use self.description instead" because then your getter would also be an infinite loop.