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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Advanced Objective-C Memory Management

Jeroen de Vrind
Jeroen de Vrind
29,772 Points

Answer of Quiz not correct?

in the first quiz of memory management there is a question about which property declaration is right in case of a child-parent relationship. I thought that to be: weak. Now it says the answer is strong. Is that correct?

2 Answers

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points

Hi Jeroen de Vrind ,

the question your are refering to is "Which property declaration is appropriate when defining a parent-child relationship?"

PARENT --> CHILD

...in this direction, strong is correct but in the other direction:

CHILD --> PARENT

you would have to use a weak reference to avoid a retain cycle.

Jeroen de Vrind
Jeroen de Vrind
29,772 Points

I see! Thanks very much for that quick answer!