One of the books that I reference rejects dot-notation for properties in Objective-C 2.0. Is this a common mindset?

**Note:** This is an empirical, programming-related question regarding the popularity of a syntactic tendency. Obviously, the most useless answers are personal -- "Well, I don't use it," -- and the more interesting ones come from a larger universe of observations. If anybody has any actual statistics on the matter, that's even better.