On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Clark Cox<clarkc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:18 AM, DerNalia<theprecognit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If I do something like: >> varName = [dictionaryName objectForKey:@"keyName"]; >> >> does that return a copy of what is in the dictionary? > > No. > >> or a pointer?
That should have been: > All objects are passed as pointers > > This method follows the normal Cocoa memory management rules. The object did > not come from an alloc..., copy... or new... method, and you didn't > retain it yourself, so you do not own a reference to it. If you want > it to stick around longer than the dictionary itself, it's up to you > to either make a copy > > > -- > Clark S. Cox III > clarkc...@gmail.com > -- Clark S. Cox III clarkc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com