On 19.07.2008, at 05:52, Andy Lee wrote:
It's only when the ownership metaphor was applied that I questioned whether the abstraction holds up.
It's a metaphor, an abstraction. As those things go, they're bound to break down at some point.
"ownership" works, because it's a term already taught in programming classes for more low-level languages (and even in good for higher- level garbage collected languages, because even there destruction order can matter). It may feel a bit odd, but thats because it works by analogy.
"autoreleased" in the context where an object is not added to a pool, however, leads to stale pointers and memory bugs, and may even lead to memory corruption and/or crashes. So I think I'll take an analogy hobbling in on its last leg over a label that leads to wrong code any day.
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