On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Bill Bumgarner<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
>>>
>>> In the meantime, the explicit case you present is always going to be
>>> fraught with peril, because after you release o, you have relinquished
>>> all rights to it.  It's now a weak reference.
>
>> Isn't it acceptable practice to let a container object I hold to maintain
>> its objects on my behalf?
>
> (Thanks for the bug -- it might end up as "behaves correctly", but the
> documentation should be refined)
>
> You can't assume that the container didn't make a copy or do something else.

I think you can, in this case, because NSMapTable isn't documented as
requiring a copyable object.

Mike
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