On 12 Sep 2013, at 18:15, Daniel Höpfl <ap...@hoepfl.de> wrote:
> On 2013-09-12 17:52, Graham Cox wrote:
>> I believe it does. I think your reading of the getter convention may
>> be incorrect. If you can point to explicit documentation that states
>> that the returned object must belong to an autorelease pool, I'll
>> stand corrected, but that would be the first time I've ever heard that
>> in 13 years of Cocoa programming!
>
> Even if there is such a rule:
>
> - (id) eventTypes
> {
> // [self lazyInitEventTypes];
>
> return [[mEventTypes retain] autorelease];
> }
It’s not a hard and fast rule, and in fact collection access does not do this,
so it’s entirely possible to do things like:
id a = x[5];
[x removeObjectAtIndex:5];
[a crashMyProgram];
Tom Davie
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