Question

Yesterday I found that I needed to add self to an object as it was causing a problem.

I’ve been adding self to a few other objects today, it compiles and seems to work fine when I do. But I’m wondering if maybe I shouldn’t be always adding self ?

Answer 1

If you have an ivar that is backing a property myFoo, then self.myFoor will use the property, whereas myFoo directly will not.
For example with this property:

@property(nonatomic, retain) MyClass myFoo;

self.myFoo = temp; will retain temp
myFoo = temp; will not retain temp