On 26 Apr 2012, at 3:00 PM, Chris Tracewell wrote:
> I usually use the sample in line 1 when declaring vars inside my methods.
You should be able to get this from any elementary book about C.
> NSString *theString = [NSString string];
Declares a variable containing a pointer to an NSString object, named
theString, and fills it with an NSString pointer representing an empty string.
The variable points to an object.
> NSString *theString = nil;
Declares a variable containing a pointer to an NSString object, named
theString, and fills it with zero (not a pointer to anything).
> NSString *theString;
Declares a variable containing a pointer to an NSString object, named
theString, and doesn't fill it with anything; the variable contains whatever
junk was left in the portion of memory the variable now uses.
— F
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