On Nov 21, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Filip van der Meeren wrote:
Sorry to be this crude, but the documentation isn't created for
beginners.
Sorry to be blunt, but some of it is. And Cocoa Fundamentals in
particular is intended for newcomers to the platform and comparative
newcomers to programming.
Whether for newcomers or not, though, the documentation should not be
misleading or wrong. In this case, it's at least misleading (if for
no other reason than that it encourages an unproductive line of
thought).
I agree, but what would you have the documentation say ?
Per my previous reply, it should simply state that — in accordance
with standard memory management rules, in a reference counted
environment — the receiver does not own the returned object.
That accurately describes the situation in all cases, and doesn't
encourage the reader to unnecesarily and unproductively start thinking
about autorelease.
mmalc
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