On 21 May '08, at 11:35 AM, Johnny Lundy wrote:
See? Not a word about autoreleasing anything, or having to retain the returned array. Nada.
It also didn't spell out that: the return value is a pointer, pointers are 4 or 8 bytes large, the pointer value zero is special and is named "nil", messaging nil is a no-op, you can assign a pointer variable to another variable of the same type, the type "id" is a generic object pointer type,the character "*" is suffixed to a type to denote a pointer to that type,
...Those are all generic behaviors, and they are well documented in the core reference and tutorial materials. Complaining because you turned to a random method in the reference and all of those generic behaviors were not described *right there in that one place where your eyes happened to fall*, of all the thousands of methods in the API that they apply to, is kind of, well, 'egotistical' is the kindest word I can think of.
I see you repeating the above argument over and over. You might want to try a different argument that actually makes sense, because this one isn't winning you any fans.
—Jens
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