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Re: Newbie question: What does "no-op" mean?
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Re: Newbie question: What does "no-op" mean?


  • Subject: Re: Newbie question: What does "no-op" mean?
  • From: Jon Davis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:31:31 -0700

So do no-ops exist solely for the sake of being there for convention, i.e. "do this if you're implemented, ignore if not"?

Jon


On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Steven Noyes wrote:

No operation. This is used to indicate a method or instruction that performs nothing.

Steven

On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Jon Davis wrote:

See subject; I'm just discovering Cocoa and documentation such as that surrounding NSAutoReleasePool's release function is described as "a no-op". What does "no-op" mean, and where can I find it discussed?

Thanks,
Jon
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