On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
Does the Cocoa memory management documentation cover functions? It specifically refers to "...a method whose name begins with...". I wonder if something like the CF "Create" rule applies to Foundation?
No — Foundation functions almost never return references that you need to release. The only exceptions I can think of are a few low-level functions intended to be used for custom object allocation/copying, like NSAllocateObject and NSCopyObject.
The reason for CF's "Create" and "Copy" naming rule is that CF doesn't have autorelease, so functions that might return newly-created objects have no choice but to hand the responsibility to the caller.
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