On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Hamish Allan wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Andy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> What would you use for adjectives -- "owned" and "unowned"? >> >> How about "retained" and "unretained"? As in: "this method returns an >> unretained object". > > Unfortunately, there's no such thing as an unretained object. When an > object stops being retained, it gets dealloced. True. The idea was to encourage the caller to think in terms of their own responsibility towards that object rather than anyone else's. But it might be confusing. Hamish _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
