Re: Protecting memory
Re: Protecting memory
- Subject: Re: Protecting memory
- From: Crispin Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:07:53 +1000
On 19/07/2012, at 12:08 PM, Rich Siegel wrote:
> Is it a code pattern in which you make a mutable array, populate it, and then want it to be immutable thereafter? If so, you could do something like:
>
> NSMutableArray *myArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity: 0];
> NSArray *myConstArray = nil;
>
> //...fill the array...
>
> myConstArray = [NSArray arrayWithArray: myMutableArray];
>
> The result of [NSArray arrayWithArray] is an immutable NSArray, which it sounds like is what you want.
Isn't -copy (as already suggested) a simpler option? The NSCopying/NSMutableCopying protocol pair seems to be the most natural Cocoa pattern for making im/mutable copie.
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