Re: [Camelbones-devel] When do you need to retain()?

[Matt S. <ma...@se...>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Sherm Pendley wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Matt Sergeant <ma...@se...> wrote:
>> Just a simple question - when do I need to retain()/release() things in
>> CamelBones? I assume it's not done automagically?
>
> It's semi-automatic. When an Objective-C object is passed to Perl, a
> Perl object "wrapper" is created and a -retain is sent to the ObjC
> object. When the "wrapper" object is destroyed by Perl (which happens
> according to Perl's normal scoping & reference counting rules), its
> destructor sends the corresponding -release to the object it wraps.

OK, so it's fair to say that my current use of retain/release in 
DVDSpanner is superfluous?

Matt.