Okay, sorry about this since I think I asked about it previously, but I forgot...
If a method (or even a C-style function) returns (NSString *), and I have a method/function like: -(NSString *)bool2String:(BOOL)b { if (!b) { return @"NO"; } return @"YES"; } is there ever a situation in which (properly written) client code could call this and trip over the memory management rules? (as opposed to: -(NSString *)bool2String(BOOL)b { if (!b) { return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", @"NO"); } return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", @"YES"); } which, IIRC, would return an autoreleased NSString, correct?) This is, is a literal NSString autoreleased, or retained? Does it matter? I would guess that literal NSStrings are (effectively) retained, since they're not going anywhere (they're literal constants, after all), but they're not obtained by "New", "alloc", or "copy", which - according to the memory management rules, means you should retain them because they were autoreleased. Which is true? _______________________________________________ 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