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Re: self = [super init] debate.
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Re: self = [super init] debate.


  • Subject: Re: self = [super init] debate.
  • From: Scott Andrew <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:35:55 -0800

One point of research (going through my books.)

The Cocoa with Objective-C book shows not assigning self.. Arg.. So where do we get in the habit of assigning self? Is it bad code practice? I know i have done it for the past 4 years out of habit and learning from example code and other materials.

Scott

On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Scott Andrew wrote:

Ok. Myself, like most Cocoa engineers have learned to write initializers like so:

-(id) init
{
	self = [super init];

	if (self != nil)
	{
		.. do my init
	}

	return self;
}

So my question is:

As i get ready to teach non-cocoa programmers in my company about cocoa programming, and having read Will Shipley's blog, Is the above the way to teach writing an initializer? I see Will, and a few others, say no [super init] will initialize self in its code there is no reason to assign self. Yet all code and docs I see have similar code.

Arguments for and against? I know old debate.... ;-)

Scott Andrew
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