On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Philippe Mougin wrote:
In the general case, there is no rule or mechanism to deal with retain cycles other than implementing something equivalent to a garbage collector. In some situations, however, the specific semantics and life-cycle of the objects you are dealing with allow implementing more simpler, ad hoc solutions (e.g., ownership management in the view hierarchy). Still, this requires notable housekeeping efforts and is often error prone. If you are in a situation where you can make use of Cocoa's garbage collector, you should go for it. It will free you from a bunch of low-level memory management tasks, including having to care about cyclic references.
Call me a retro coward, but I absolutely dislike the idea of GC. I just don't see the point of it given the complicated implications it can have.
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion. Regards Markus -- __________________________________________ Markus Spoettl
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