On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Bill Bumgarner <b...@mac.com> wrote: >> 2. If I have an NSObject class and I define an init messge, do I have >> to do self = [super init] or is that not important when extending from >> NSObject. > > Yes, it is important. > > But it does next to nothing. > > For now. Someday, that might change.
I sure hope not! The documentation for the method states: "The init method defined in the NSObject class does no initialization; it simply returns self." Making it do anything else would be a serious breach of the API contract. However I strongly advocate calling it anyway, as it makes your code more robust if you change the superclass later on to something that really does do something in init. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
