Noobie ARC Question

so with ARC, basically i don't have to type in [whatever release]; after every pointer?


just to make sure i understood it correctly



edit: what about retain? because I've read that retain isn't necessary also, so what would be put in the header when u identify the method?


for example, is it implying i don't need the retain? if not what would i put in place of it?

Code:

@interface FirstViewController : UIViewController
{
     IBOutlet UILabel *onHand;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UILabel *onHand;

@end

 

isn't it just not typing in release and such things like that?



it seems like it does more from reading your question? what more does it do?


edit: and what about strong? i heard its the replacement for retain in ARC apps, if i were to convert my app to ARC would i have to change my "retains" to "strong" ? because it worked perfectly fine with retain.

 

no, i haven't thank you, i read it and i think its basically saying retain is replaced with strong and weak.



im reluctant to look at documentation because i still can't read/understand it yet.

but it does make more sense than it did 3 months ago lol. as I'm going through another iOS book, its more understandable, the first book i went through i didn't know what i was reading.

grasping the whole concept and terminology seems pretty tedious.

 

thanks, for the advice, yea I've been rushing chapters and such also in the beginning and it wasn't too great.

i realized i have to spend a lot of time on each and practice and experiment to grasp everything. I'm just really impatient i just wished everything just made sense the first time and it gels in the first time around