Unless Apple defines another adjective for this purpose, it seems to
me that "autoreleased" is a reasonable shorthand for "you must
retain it if you want it to stick around, or you *may* have a
dangling pointer." Similarly, "retained" is a reasonable shorthand
for "you must balance the method you just called with a release, or
you'll have a memory leak."
"Autoreleased" is inaccurate and is not a proper shorthand for "you
must retain it if you want it to stick around".
To understand why, consider two possible implementations of a get
accessor:
And come to think of it, why mention that method X returns an object-
I-need-to-retain, but not mention it for method Y? If it's assumed
I've read the memory management rules, these should go without
saying. So maybe I am missing something.
If you find cases where memory management is mentioned simply to state
that a method follows the standard rules, please file a bug or send in
feedback using the form in the documentation.
mmalc
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