On 10 May 2010, at 16:49, Thomas Wetmore wrote:
> This is the initializer pattern I settled on a few years back:
>
> - (id) init...
> {
> if (!(self = [super init])) return nil;
> ...
> return self;
> }
>
> Trillions of calls later I can report upon its serviceability.
>
> I come from an old school, formed in the mid 60's, the Savers Institute for
> Indentation Levels and Code, when Fortran on punch cards was de rigueur. My
> graduate work was done at the Bell Labs Institute of Advanced Obfuscation
> when C was cool. Both schools have since lost their raison d'être, and are
> sometimes ridiculed, but old alumni still cherish their dogmas.
Just to add to the heap of style opinions...
I personally really dislike this one, for two reasons:
1) I hate that in C a statement can be an expression, it's not immediately
clear when and how it'll be executed, and it's not immediately clear that your
if statement might have a side effect. Keeping if statements free of side
effects is good.
2) While using a pointer in a comparison is not a type error in C, it certainly
is in my brain – pointers and booleans are not the same thing.
Because of those two reasons I use:
- (id)init
{
self = [super init];
if (nil != self)
{
...
}
return self;
}
Bob_______________________________________________
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