Le 7 oct. 2010 à 18:04, Kyle Sluder a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Remco Poelstra <[email protected]> wrote: >> While still in the process of cleaning up my code, I read in the >> documentation of NSObject that -init should return nil if it fails to >> initialize. But a paragraph lower it's stated that -init should always >> return a functional instance or raise an exception. Isn't that in conflict >> with the allowance of returning nil? > > File a documentation bug. I would imagine the paragraph about the > exception is saying that an exception must be raised rather than > returning a half-constructed instance of the object.
I agree. The "must raise an exception" is a bug in the documentation IMHO. There is a lot of recent API that used the 'return nil' pattern (especially methods design to return an NSError by ref). -- Jean-Daniel _______________________________________________ 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]
