title: Objective-C / iPhone SDK Pointers Help
body: <p>I'm new to iPhone development, and am sort-of getting there with pointers in Objective-C. Can anyone briefly explain pointers to me? I know that some native C types don't need pointers (i.e. are weakly typed), such as int.</p>
  
  <p>Also, what's the difference between:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSDate* theDate = [NSDate date];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSDate *theDate = [NSDate date];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks again StackOverflow!</p>