Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:

• Subject: Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:
• From: j o a r <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:47:17 -0800
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On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Gregory Weston wrote:

+alloc is a cover for +allocWithZone: with a NULL zone. Not that you would know that from the documentation, unfortunately.

Which means, like the current behavior of new, that's an implementation detail that shouldn't really be relied on.

@implementation NSObject (BetterNew)
+ (id) betterNew { return [[self alloc] init]; }
@end

j o a r

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