Why do I need to write @synthesize when I provide getter and setter?

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When you provide both getter and setter, there is often just no need for an instance variable at all, i.e. when you just forward those messages or store data in other places.

As soon as one of them is missing, the ivar is needed to synthesize that functionality.

If I remember correctly, for readonly properties the analogue assumption holds as well.

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