Greetings:

    I just came across a NSObject subclass written by someone, that
contains a couple of date/Time-processing methods (stringToDate,
visa-versa).

The methods were all class-level methods (+) vs (-); and hence, didn't
require the familiar alloc & init instantiation methods.

 

I've been writing NSObjects via instantiation (requiring alloc & init)
that I use to model business logic (packing XML data vectors, etc.) and
hold a lot of common methods to use.

 

I can see a project using class methods instead of instantiated methods;
and hence, avoid the alloc/init memory hassles.

 

My question (which is ELEMENTARY), is....

1)      why use instantiated objects versus classes (via class methods)?

2)      Are classes stored in the stack & instatiated objects on the
heap?

 

 

Ric.

 

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