Objective C Array and Object Release

Question

I have a newbie question regarding when to release the elements of a NSArray. See following pseudo code:

NSMutalbeArray *2DArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] in         


        

Answer 1

When an object is created, it has a retain count of 1. Whenever a object is added to an array, its retain count is increased (in this case to 2). After adding to the array, your code release its hold of the object, dropping its retain count by 1 (to 1 in this case). Then when you release the array, it calls release on everything in it dropping their retain counts by 1 (to 0 in this case). When retain count hits 0 the object is deallocated.

Your code looks correct from a memory management stand point.