release/autorelease confusion in cocoa for iphone

Question

I\'m slowly teaching myself cocoa for the iPhone(through the Stanford Class on iTunes U) and I\'ve just gone through the part on memory management, and I wanted to hopefully

Answer 1

Last part first: You will indeed have to auto/release Me. However, you will also have to add [firstName release]; and [lastName release]; in -dealloc; or better yet; self.firstName = nil;

As for string literals; this part gets a bit hairy, but [@"String literal" release] is essentially a noop. As such, there is a difference between the two temp objects, but as you won't generally know which one you'll be dealing with, adding [temp release]; is generally the safe choice, unless you know it'll contain an autoreleased object.