On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Remco Poelstra <re...@beryllium.net> wrote:
> While still in the process of cleaning up my code, I read in the 
> documentation of NSObject that -init should return nil if it fails to 
> initialize. But a paragraph lower it's stated that -init should always return 
> a functional instance or raise an exception. Isn't that in conflict with the 
> allowance of returning nil?

File a documentation bug. I would imagine the paragraph about the
exception is saying that an exception must be raised rather than
returning a half-constructed instance of the object.

--Kyle Sluder
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