On May 19, 2010, at 5:53 PM, David Hoerl wrote:
> What I had hoped my ug would prompt a revision such as: "Return values from messages sent to nil are guaranteed to work as long as what is returned is typed as an object or an integral or floating scalar (refer to ObjC2.0 Guide for a full discussion)."
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> My purpose in entering the bug was that the statement "messages sent to nil are guaranteed to work as long as what is returned is typed as an object." is extremely misleading to people most in need of correct guidance, noobies.
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> Frankly, I was shocked when this bug was closed. My sincere hope is that some Apple employee reading this will see this issue as I do and do something about it.
You bug was closed erroneously. You should file another bug and send us the bug number.
"The Objective-C Programming Language" includes a section that documents the well-defined nil return types. Other documentation should point back to that.
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Greg Parker email@hidden Runtime Wrangler
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