It's only when the ownership metaphor was applied that I questioned
whether the abstraction holds up.
It's a metaphor, an abstraction. As those things go, they're bound
to break down at some point.
"ownership" works, because it's a term already taught in programming
classes for more low-level languages (and even in good for higher-
level garbage collected languages, because even there destruction
order can matter). It may feel a bit odd, but thats because it works
by analogy.
"autoreleased" in the context where an object is not added to a
pool, however, leads to stale pointers and memory bugs, and may even
lead to memory corruption and/or crashes. So I think I'll take an
analogy hobbling in on its last leg over a label that leads to wrong
code any day.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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