>The dot operator sends the object a message that be bound to anything Modern obj-c "dot notation" + properties + synthesized ivars add a lot of syntactic suga

>The dot operator sends the object a message that be bound to anything Modern obj-c "dot notation" + properties + synthesized ivars add a lot of syntactic sugar that make things more confusing, if you go back to original obj-c where it was just ivars and explicit getters/setters, things are a lot easier to understand.