On May 7, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote:

> it worth checking for nil after doing self = [super init]?


Yes. It's part of a design pattern, which looks like this:

---
- (id)init 
{
   if (self = [super init])
   {

   }
   return self;
}
---

See "Constraints and Conventions".
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Articles/ocAllocInit.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH22-SW14

Also see "Handling Initialization Failure".
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Articles/ocAllocInit.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001163-CH22-SW13
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