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Re: Checking for nil-return
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Re: Checking for nil-return


  • Subject: Re: Checking for nil-return
  • From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:23:07 +0100

On 5 Oct 2010, at 15:18:06, Remco Poelstra wrote:

> Op 5-10-2010 16:11, Dave DeLong schreef:
>> Then you have much bigger problems.
>
> I already thought so :). But I noticed that [NSArray arrayWithCapacity] also never returns nil. But I can create a very large array, and I can make it bigger with addObjects:atIndexes: and that function returns void, so always succeeds. How is that possible?
>

Because it throws exceptions if anything bad happens at runtime (i.e out of memory, invalid parameters etc)

Google for NSException

Matt
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