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Re: style question: when to use 'id' as return value?

Subject: Re: style question: when to use 'id' as return value?
From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:25:51 -0800

On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

NSString has the method:
+ (id)stringWithString:(NSString *)aString
Why is the return value not an 'NSString*' instead of an 'id'? Is this just a stylistic preference, or...?

Because both NSString and NSMutableString Do The Right Thing when that method is invoked and, thus, declaring that the method returns a particular type of string -- mutable or immutable -- would be wrong half the time.

b.bum

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