On May 19, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
>> On May 19, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a means to have an object know when it's being observed so that it 
>> will refuse to nuke itself in this condition?
> 
> Nope. Remember, objects don’t “nuke” themselves; they are dealloced when no 
> other objects have references to them. It’s the observer’s responsibility to 
> retain a reference to the target object (observee?) for as long as it’s 
> observing that object. Or at least to have some means of detecting that the 
> target object is going to go away, and removing itself as an observer then.
> 
> —Jens

OK, fair enough.  Looks like I'll have build a little weak referenced dealy 
that subclasses dealloc and stops if it detects any observers.  Then for any 
object that I plan on being KVOable, it will have to be be a subclass of 
NSObject+bubblewrappedKVO, if dealloc is called while observers are still on 
the object.

Thank you, sir.

Alex Zavatone
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