Bump. I'd still like to hear about this. The docs have a *huge* box saying that 
iOS NSPointerArray is not doing __weak references, but it sure looks to me like 
it is. But I don't know how to test. Thanks for any help. m.

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:51:57 -0800, Matt Neuburg <m...@tidbits.com> said:
>The docs for NSPointerArray say, in a big bold box right at the top:
>
>> Important: NSPointerArray does not support weak references under Automatic 
>> Reference Counting (ARC).
>
>However, a [NSPointerArray weakObjectsPointerArray] does NULL an element that 
>has been released through ARC; I can test this directly, and I've also been 
>using NSPointerArray successfully to break retain cycles. So are the docs just 
>lying (in a big bold box right at the top), or is this some other kind of weak 
>reference (i.e. somehow weak, but not ARC-__weak)?

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