title: Are classes objects in Objective-C?
body: <p>okay, so I understand that an object is an instance of a class that must be allocated and initialized, but are classes themselves objects?</p>
  
  <p>I know when you create a new class it is an instance of something else, like NSObject. So, if this makes it a class, then objects can hold not only variables and methods, but other objects as well, right?</p>
  
  <p>Sorry, this is probably really basic, but I am reading two books about cocoa and xcode and this point is a little unclear (probably because of my lack of experience in other languages).</p>