Chapter 2 wrap-up weak attribute

Avoiding the circular reference, my feeling is to have the weak attribute for the delegate property, but I really don’t know why. Could you explain a bit?

I would like some explanation too, please.

A should own B, such that, say, when A is dealloc’d, B is also dealloc’d. In other words, when A goes away, we want ARC to automatically get rid of the “things that A owns.”

However, considering B’s reference to A as a delegate, we don’t want B to have a strong reference to A. If we did, I believe the underlying retain count would be too high for A.

As a rule of thumb, delegates should be weak.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8449040/why-...