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Re: Autorelease Question
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Re: Autorelease Question


  • Subject: Re: Autorelease Question
  • From: Filip van der Meeren <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:17:04 +0100

But the docs also say "Another purpose for a class factory method is to ensure that a certain class (NSWorkspace, for example) vends a singleton instance".

Filip van der Meeren
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlinterpreter

On 21 Nov 2008, at 17:12, Devon Ferns wrote:

The docs say autoreleased as he already said which may not always be true.

Devon

Filip van der Meeren wrote:

I quote: "For objects that never get released, this method should return UINT_MAX". So where do you see your bug ?
Filip van der Meeren
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlinterpreter
On 21 Nov 2008, at 16:44, mmalcolm crawford wrote:


I do, and I already filed a bug.

Cocoa Fundamentals Guide states:

Class Factory Methods

"Class factory methods are implemented by a class as a convenience for clients. They combine allocation and initialization in one step and return the created object autoreleased. These methods are of the form + (type)className... (where className excludes any prefix)."
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CocoaObjects/chapter_3_section_6.html >


It should probably not explicitly state "autoreleased" — it should simply state that — in accordance with standard memory management rules, in a reference counted environment — the receiver does not own the returned object.


mmalc

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