This has been, or is being updated.

The suggested pattern is now

- (id)init 
{
  self = [super init];
  if (self)
  {

  }
  return self;
}

All our documentation has been updated to reflect this (even if it hasn’t 
necessarily made it out to the users yet)


On May 8, 2010, at 11:27 AM, jeremy wrote:

> On May 7, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote:
> 
>> it worth checking for nil after doing self = [super init]?
> 
> 
> Yes. It's part of a design pattern, which looks like this:
> 
> ---
> - (id)init 
> {
>   if (self = [super init])
>   {
> 
>   }
>   return self;
> }
> ---
> 
> See "Constraints and Conventions".
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Articles/ocAllocInit.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH22-SW14
> 
> Also see "Handling Initialization Failure".
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Articles/ocAllocInit.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH22-SW13

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