Objective C - Memory management question?

Question

I know that when i have a property for an object which is set to retain or copy i must do the following.

Object *o = [[Object alloc] init];
self.myObject = o;
[o         


        

Answer 1

What you can do is ensure you release the previously allocated object before assigning the variable holding it to a new instance (be it a retained version of another object, or a copy of it).

If you don't define a property for it, don't use the dot syntax.