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Re: Autorelease Question
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Re: Autorelease Question


  • Subject: Re: Autorelease Question
  • From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:02:26 -0800

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Carmen Cerino Jr. <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure the best way to phrase this question into words, so I
> will phrase it using example code.
>
> - (NSString*)foo
> {
>
>    NSString blah = [NSString string];
>
>    .........
>
>
>    //Now do I do:
>    return blah;
>
>    //Or:
>    return [[blah retain] autorelease]];
> }


In the end either of the above are OK (assuming you add the "*" after
NSString)... the later return version is simply unneeded in the
example you have shown.

Of course [NSString string] is just an empty string and they are
immutable so your example doesn't make much sense.

-Shawn
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