When I set an object = nil, will it be garbage collected or do I have to release it?
When I set an object = nil , will it be garbage collected or
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The current iOS doesn’t support garbage collection, so no.
However, if object is a @property of another object and is defined something like:
Then calling myObject.object = nil will autorelease the previous value of object.