On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jeff Laing wrote:

> As I recall, sending variables of type id<YourProtocol> useful messages like 
> retain and release generate a compiler warning, whereas 
> NSObject<YourProtocol> are fine.
> 
> I could be wrong on this, but I definitely recall thinking it was a stupid 
> compiler behavior.

This is because you didn't declare your protocol as extending the NSObject 
protocol. If you do something like this:

@protocol MyProtocol<NSObject>

Then you can call all the NSObject stuff without warning.
--
David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing

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