On Jan 29, 2013, at 23:25 , Greg Parker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Name the method `new...` instead of `create...`. Otherwise you do suffer an 
> autorelease penalty with ARC. (`create...` is not one of the names that ARC 
> assumes will return a retained result.)

Oops, I'm always getting that backwards. Need to go fix some code, now that I 
think about it.

> Return `(instancetype)` instead of `(id)` or `(Bla *)`. Otherwise you won't 
> work well with subclasses. (The compiler will assume instancetype if your 
> method is named `new...`, but not if you use some other name.)

That one's new to me. Completely undocumented on developer.apple.com, I notice. 
Which Xcode has the clang that has it?

But doesn't 'id' still mean the same thing when the method family is 'new…', as 
it formerly did?

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