On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Chunk 1978<[email protected]> wrote: > "new", "alloc", initWithFormat" (or "stringWithFormat") are class > factory methods that are declared methods inherited by my custom > classes, i guess somewhere in NSObject?
No. +alloc is a class method that creates a new instance. -initWithFormat: is an initializer. +new is a shortcut for saying [[Foo alloc] init]. +stringWithFormat: is a convenience constructor that returns an unowned reference, and is therefore similar to doing [[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:...] autorelease]. Please review the conceptual documentation, particularly the introduction to Objective-C and the Memory Management Guide. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
