On Mar 3, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > On 04/03/2011, at 11:54 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > >> because NSString is a very, very special case. Memory management for strings >> is utterly different from memory management for a normal object > > > Is it? > > Are you basing this on your observations, or on some documentation?
Well, I may have put it rather too strongly - string literals are special, is what I meant. But many strings start life as a literal. I'm not saying one should *treat* them differently - indeed, doing that is a good way to get into trouble. I'm just saying that if you peek at the man behind the curtain (the retain count) they can be surprising - like the retain count for stringWithString:@"hello". At one point I needed to make a string with a "normal" retain count (for a teaching example) and had quite a bit of trouble working out how to do it. m._______________________________________________ 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
