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Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:
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Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:


  • Subject: Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:
  • From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:11:42 -0800

On Feb 15, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Gregory Weston wrote:
Keith Duncan wrote:
As far as I understand, [Foo new] is exactly equivalent to [[Foo
alloc] init]
Correct.
Incorrect. Based on the documentation new (by default) does setup work analogous to alloc and then invokes init before returning the object. It does not actually use the alloc method, though, which means it's entirely possible for new to not be equivalent to an alloc/init pair.

Possible? Sure. But one would be mighty optimistic to make such a subtle distinction.


On Leopard, +new is implemented as return [[self alloc] init]; It is equivalent unless a subclass overrides, which is exceedingly unlikely.

b.bum


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