On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

> On 31 Jul 2013, at 1:28 PM, David Duncan <david.dun...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Vincent Habchi <vi...@macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Le 31 juil. 2013 à 20:15, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>>>> I apologize if this question looks stupid or contrived. Here it is: is it 
>>>>> permissible to use [@“” mutableCopy] to initialize (or reset) a 
>>>>> NSMutableString instead of the more classical [[NSMutableString alloc] 
>>>>> init]?
>>>> 
>>>> Yes.
>>> 
>>> Thanks! (No side effect?)
>> 
>> 
>> Why would there be? Your just asking for a mutable copy of an empty string. 
>> It should be equivalent to [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:@""]
> 
> Or [NSMutableString string].

With ARC, yes.  With MRR, they're different in terms of ownership.

Regards,
Ken


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