On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:13 PM, slasktrattena...@gmail.com wrote:

> In this particular case, though, I might just as well get rid of the
> timer altogether and go for NSObject's
> performSelector:afterDelay:/cancelSelector: instead. Jeff's
> enlightening (and frightening!) discussion about implicit retain
> cycles makes me want to stay as far away from NSTimers as possible.

Have you read the documentation for -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: ? 
"This method sets up a timer to perform the aSelector message on the current 
thread’s run loop." "This method retains the receiver and the anArgument 
parameter until after the selector is performed." ;-)

-Jeff

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