On Feb 16, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Kevin Meaney <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't say take them out. I said why do they need to return an autoreleased > object. Why can't they just return an object like alloc init... does.
Because if they returned an object that wasn't autoreleased (i.e. that the caller needs to release), non-ARC code that called the method would leak the returned object. These methods have been around for a long time and their semantics can't be changed just because ARC now exists, at least not until some hypothetical future OS release where ARC becomes mandatory. —Jens _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
