Re: Cocoa newbie question: when to retain and when to copy args passed to method...?
Re: Cocoa newbie question: when to retain and when to copy args passed to method...?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa newbie question: when to retain and when to copy args passed to method...?
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:06:40 -0700
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> 'Tis simple: "retain" gives you a _shared_ object,
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> whilst "copy" gives you a copy.
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Apart from occasions where it doesn't and just retains
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it and passes a reference to itself back.
Is there a special job category for folks who work hard
to make simple, clear things complex & ambiguous? I know
they have them in several parts of governments, but...
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