Why tack a protocol of NSObject to a protocol implementation

Question

I have been seeing some code around that resembles the following:

@protocol MyProtocol 
// write some methods.
@end

Is ther

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure the reason you would do this is to add the NSObject members (say like retain and release) to your protocol. Technically you can still send those messages anyways but you will get a compiler warning without it.