> The documentation isn’t wrong. It reflects what’s in the 10.10 SDK headers — 
> initWithContentsOfFile: and initWithContentsOfURL: are return-typed NSArray* 
> or NSMutableArray*, while all the others are return-typed instancetype.

Oh yes, indeed, you're right. I didn't really pay attention to what was behind 
the initWith.

> I don’t know why

This is most likely an implementation detail, because for some reason it needs 
a specific implementation of the array. However, it's weird that the init 
method does that and not e.g. a + (NSArray*)arrayWithContentsOfURL.

> My guess is that the Cocoa initWithContentsOf… methods actually return a 
> different object from the one that was allocated

Yup. init methods are free the instance and return a new one.

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Jonathan
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