Objective-C Property Access

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Nothing! Dot-notation is “syntactic sugar” introduced in Objective-C 2.0. In fact, the compiler converts foo.property to [foo property] during compile-time, so they compile to exactly the same thing.

It’s simply a matter of which you prefer.

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