On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:

> …having been using Objective C productively for over 10 years now, that I 
> still find ARC something I have not needed. So far. I'm kinda hoping that 
> remains true, because it actually seems pretty complicated in order to cover 
> all the arcane use-cases and I'd rather stick to what I know which has the 
> overwhelming advantage of being really, really simple.

ARC simply automates and enforces Cocoa conventions. No more, no less. 
Therefore those "arcane use-cases" are in fact where programmers get themselves 
into really subtle trouble with manual reference counting.

davez
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