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




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