The else will be fine, but the other half isn't because he isn't checking for nil err, as Greg and others pointed out.
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote: > yes it will. i don't think the OP quite grasps pointer-to-pointers yet. > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Greg Guerin <glgue...@amug.org> wrote: >> Dave Carrigan wrote: >> >>> This is fine, although the code in the else is useless. >> >> >> It won't be fine if err is nil. That's another Cocoa idiom: if the >> NSError** is nil, then no NSError* is returned. >> >> -- GG >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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/stephen.butler%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to stephen.but...@gmail.com >> > _______________________________________________ > > 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/dave%40rudedog.org > > This email sent to d...@rudedog.org _______________________________________________ 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
