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Re: Autorelease/Retain/Release

Subject: Re: Autorelease/Retain/Release
From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:59:10 -0700

On 7/24/07, Tim Davis <email@hidden> wrote:

How do I know what is an accessor method/convenience method?


That is the wrong question.

You should ask yourself did "I" get reference to the object using a
method that starts with "alloc", "new", or contains the word "copy" in
it or is the method documented to follow the "create" rule?

If the answer is no then you don't have a claim (retain) on the object
and hence that object could disappear on you at sometime in the future
(often when the current autorelease pool is drained).

I would review the following more closely...

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Concepts/ObjectOwnership.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000043>

-Shawn
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