Re: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647
Re: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647
- Subject: Re: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647
- From: Thomas Wetmore <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:05:36 -0400
Thanks for the answers on the NSString singleton character string
question.
Retain counts are not magical, and though we poor developers may not
know the underlying details of everything the frameworks do with them,
it is not hard, when applying adult-level reasoning skills, to use
them to help debug sticky situations. They are not complicated things
no matter what Apple might do in special cases. The admonitions from
some that asking such questions or peeking at retain counts is off-
limits or oh-my-god things might change in the future so stay away,
seems fairly close-minded to me. Since so many of you felt obliged to
give me advice, let me give you some -- be willing to think and stay
off slippery hobby horses.
Tom Wetmore
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