On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:05:37 -0400, Gregory Weston <gwes...@mac.com> said:
>Stephen J. Butler wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Colin Howarth <co...@howarth.de>
>> wrote:
>>>        NSStringEncoding *enc;
>>>        NSError *error;
>>>
>>>        NSString *file = [NSString
>>> stringWithContentsOfFile:@"/Users/colin/developer/Trace/glass.csv"
>>> usedEncoding:enc error:&error];
>While we're at it, the values of enc and error are (effectively)
>nondeterministic before the message send. The documentation for the
>method you're invoking doesn't specify what it'll put into the
>encoding argument on failure or into the error argument on success,
>which means you really shouldn't be blindly using either of them after
>the call. It would be a good idea to get into the habit of
>initializing your local variables at the point of declaration.

And IIRC the Build and Analyze mechanism (clang?) will warn of this. Try it,
you'll like it! m.

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