Is defining a property & synthesize for a variable

Question

Defining a property & synthesize for a variable in a singleton class allowed?,like below in interface,

@property(nonatomic,assign)NSInteger value;

and in implementation file,

@synthesize value;

or we just have to declare a variable like below,

@interface SingletonDataClass : NSObject
{
    NSInteger value;
}

Answer 1

Anything that you can do with your regular classes you can do with singletons.

There is no language concept called "singleton", it is just a common usage pattern of regular Objective C classes. What makes a class a singleton is the way you ensure its instantiation happens only once, i.e. your own supporting code.