Workaround to accomplish protected properties in Objective-C

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a workaround to declare @protected properties in Objective-C so only subclasses in the hierarchy can access them (read only, not write). I read that th

Answer 1

If you ask for opinion, this is mine: If one decides to mutate your

_myProtectedInt

he will probably succed anyway, because it's definitely possible with Objective-C runtime. Except this, your solution is quite OK.