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Re:nil, Nil, NULL, NSNull by Scorponok on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:45AM (#5021829)
This is no longer true when using ARC. See the "Stack Variables Are Initialized with nil" section of http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Objecti...

"Using ARC, strong, weak, and autoreleasing stack variables are now implicitly initialized with nil."

This doesn't affect plain C variables, but it would solve the issue you had above.

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