Need explanation on @property/@synthesize in iOS

Question

Not a complete noob I am quite new to iOS programming and to Ojbective-C. I mainly come from a background of C (DSP, Microcontrollers), Delphi XE2/Pascal , Visual Basic and Java

Answer 1

This is a language feature that has had its usage evolve rapidly over the past few years, which explains the various forms. With the most recent tools, you can choose to ignore @synthesize and have things work reasonably.

The default behavior in that case produces the same effect as @synthesize list = _list;.