On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > You should be able to get this from any elementary book about C.
I'm sure you are correct. >> NSString *theString = nil; > > fills it with zero (not a pointer to anything). > >> NSString *theString; > > and doesn't fill it with anything; the variable contains whatever junk was > left in the portion of memory the variable now uses. Thank you these were excellent answers. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com