On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:20 PM, Adam P Jenkins wrote:
Exactly. And now that the convention of methods returning self no longer exists, it seems like there's no longer any advantage to this behavior.
There are 10s of thousands invocations of methods on nil objects during the normal, non-error-path, execution of your average Cocoa application that indicate that this behavior is still, very much, used to the advantage (where 'advantage == convenience') of Cocoa programmers.
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