Apologies. I have no desire to start an internecine war. I have been reading up on ARC for the past few hours. I also watched the WWDC video on ARC, and after having watched and read everything, I kept feeling as if I was rather comfortable with the old manual memory model.
I guess my real question is "Why did Apple decide to introduce ARC at all?". I am not convinced that the conventions are any easier than the previous model of manual retain counts. Patrick On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:41 PM, <livinginlosange...@mac.com> wrote: > Would anyone agree [with] me that ARC introduces more rules and > considerations than previously existed with manual reference counting? > > It's not clear which of the two messages, from the entire daily digest you > quoted, you are replying to. > > If you are asking for help of some kind, you might tell us what you need help > with, and how the documentation from Apple and clang.llvm.org have let you > down. > > If you have an observation to make, you should make it, rather than task > others to make theirs with no clue as to what you are driving at. What "rules > and considerations" are you talking about? It would help us, to know if > you've already pondered the thousands of words already published about the > rationale for introducing ARC, and the corner cases that remain; and, having > pondered them, what fresh rules and considerations you have discovered, or > how they might be more-clearly explained. > > Because you're not just inviting us to another religious war about issues > that were resolved (well or badly) years ago, are you? Your phrasing is > awfully close to "Let's you and him fight." > > — F > _______________________________________________ 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
