On 18 Jul 2012, at 08:09, Lee Ann Rucker wrote: > In init, and only when they need it. They're all initialized to nil, which is > a perfectly reasonable value for an instvar to have; there's very rarely a > reason to do anything like > >> name = [NSString string]; > > because sending a method to nil is perfectly safe, unlike C++. > >> foodLists = [NSMutableArray array]; > > is necessary, as you've seen, but not for the reasons you think.
Both of those lines are going to cause random crashes later on because they're non-retained objects. Chris _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com