On Sep 9, 2013, at 1:43 AM, Patrick Cusack wrote: > 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. >
In a large part, it's one less thing to worry about. One less thing to have to keep in your head. > > Patrick _______________________________________________ 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
