Setting an object nil versus release+realloc

Question

This is not a garbage collected environment

I have a class instance variable which at some point in my runtime, I need to re-initialize with a different data set than it

Answer 1

You could use a property and get almost the syntax you want without the memory leak.

Use this syntax to declare the array

@property (readwrite, retain) NSMutableArray *myArray;

Then re-initialize it like this:

[self setMyArray:[NSMutableArray array]];