There are two new memory management attributes for properties introduced by ARC, strong
and weak
.
Apart from copy
, which is obviously something completely different, are there any differences between strong
vs retain
and weak
vs assign
?
From my understanding, the only difference here is that weak
will assign nil
to the pointer, while assign
won’t, which means the program will crash when I send a message to the pointer once it’s been released. But if I use weak
, this won’t ever happen, because message send to nil
won’t do anything.
I don’t know about any differences between strong
and retain
.
Is there any reason why should I use assign
and retain
in new projects, or are the kind of being deprecated?