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Re: NSObject Exercise comments?
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Re: NSObject Exercise comments?


  • Subject: Re: NSObject Exercise comments?
  • From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:04:11 -0800

On Dec 10, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Andreas Mayer wrote:

> > -(Fraction *) reduceFraction

However, it is a good point because it leads to unnecessary confusion.

That's actually the main point, I think. When I see a method that returns an object, that object is usually a new one.

I know that there was a convention were the original object was returned when ever possible, so that one could 'chain' method calls together. But I think this is discouraged now. At least it's uncommon and therefore confusing.

Is that so? I thought that was one of the coolest points of Cocoa, honestly. You certainly still see it throughout Apple's classes.

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