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Re: Autorelease Question
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Re: Autorelease Question


  • Subject: Re: Autorelease Question
  • From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:18:58 -0500

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Filip van der Meeren
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I disagree, the retain, autorelease and release are all defined within the
> Foundation framework.
> And that is something that belongs together with the Objective-C language
> (according to me); I know it does not need it to exist as a language, but
> Objective-C is kind of useless without the Foundation framework...
>
> I really don't see myself creating a NSObject interface each time I create a
> terminal project! ;-)

It's useless without *a* foundation framework, but Foundation is not
the only one.

I did a great deal of productive work in Objective-C before ever
touching any libraries with a NeXT/Apple heritage. From that
perspective, everything that starts with NS is outside the language
and in libraries. From a pure Apple perspective it's not so clear.
Various Apple additions such as properties and garbage collection have
blurred the line even further. But still, ObjC can be quite useful
without Foundation.

Mike
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