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Re: Trying to understand -- please help...
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Re: Trying to understand -- please help...


  • Subject: Re: Trying to understand -- please help...
  • From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:17:28 -0700

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Peter Hudson <email@hidden> wrote:
> The line of code   [NSArray arrayWithObjects: c0, ...c9, nil];  produces
> an array all right - but as you have used a class initializer, it will auto
> release when you return from the method where it was created.

They are normally referred to as convenience constructors or
convenience methods in Apple's documentation.

> Any initialiser  with a  "+"  in front of it returns an autoreleased object

The fact is you don't know if it is an auto-released object or not...
it is an implementation detail, it doesn't matter.

All that matters is following the memory contract...

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000994>

-Shawn
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