Quincey and John,
Thank you both for the replies and opinions. I do like the factory method
approach, however there is something about a mandatory process or workflow for
using an object that seems like it should naturally be put in an init method.
It sometimes strikes me a little weird when I
On Feb 27, 2013, at 13:12 , Brad O'Hearne wrote:
> - (id)init:(NSError **)error;
> {
>self = [super init];
>
>if (self)
>{
>if ([self operationThatMightFail:error])
>{
>*error = nil;
>}
>else
>{
>return nil;
>}
>
On Feb 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Brad O'Hearne wrote:
> I have a need to construct an object with the possibility of an error taking
> place and needing to return that error. While it would be nice to have a
> clean init method that returned no errors, in this particular case, the error
> belongs w
