@property/@synthesize question

Question

I\'m going through all of my documentation regarding memory management and I\'m a bit confused about something.

When you use @property, it creates getters/setters for th

Answer 1

In addition to Nick's answer - synthesized getters/setters don't provide autorelease (btw, what's the big idea of doing this? Well, you can use getter as a factory, but it's not a common way in Objective C).

Then in dealloc I see:

self.myString = nil;

or

[myString release];

or

self.myString = nil; [myString release];

In dealloc it doesn't really matter which form of release you're using. But the good way is to nil your fields when releasing them :) I prefer to use self.myString = nil; in dealloc