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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Introduction to Objective-C Inheritance

Chris McLennon
Chris McLennon
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Posted by Chris McLennon
Chris McLennon
800 Points

Why does the property ruby need to be a pointer?

In the code challenge the line "property(nonatomic, strong) Ruby *ruby;" comes up, but why does *ruby have to be a pointer? The only difference is that ruby can point to a memory address, right? Thanks!

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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

ruby needs to be a pointer because ruby is an object. All objects in objective c are pointers.