On 10 Aug 2017, at 14:57, gerti-cocoa...@bitart.com wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2017, at 02:18, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: >> >> Personally I *would* still discourage +new in favour of class-specific >> convenience constructors because I think it’s less expressive and also less >> consistent (e.g. +array is better, in my opinion, than +new, not least >> because +arrayWithObjects: and others exist). > > [NSArray new] := [[NSArray alloc]init] > > [NSArray array] := [[[NSArray alloc]init]autorelease] > > +array and friends came along with the introduction of autorelease pools, to > replace +new with something that didn't imply ownership (the oft mentioned > special meaning of "new" as prefix). So while with ARC they are essentially > equivalent, previously they were not.
Yes, I know that, thanks. The point is, with ARC, they’re equivalent, and most new code uses ARC, so, again, I’d discourage +new in favour of class-specific convenience constructors. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
