> On Aug 10, 2017, at 02:18, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: > > Personally I *would* still discourage +new in favour of class-specific > convenience constructors because I think it’s less expressive and also less > consistent (e.g. +array is better, in my opinion, than +new, not least > because +arrayWithObjects: and others exist).
[NSArray new] := [[NSArray alloc]init] [NSArray array] := [[[NSArray alloc]init]autorelease] +array and friends came along with the introduction of autorelease pools, to replace +new with something that didn't imply ownership (the oft mentioned special meaning of "new" as prefix). So while with ARC they are essentially equivalent, previously they were not. Gerd _______________________________________________ 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
