On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:55 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".


How about "dependent" and "independent".

It it's dependent, they you have a responsibility for it, maybe many times over. If it is independent, then you don't.

This also talks in terms of the relationship, not the means to establishing that relationship.


Steve Weller   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Writing, Editing, Developer Guides, and a little Cocoa



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