Kind of late in the decade for this, but anyhow, the documentation for -release says:
- (oneway void)release Decrements the receiver’s reference count. Discussion. The receiver is sent a dealloc message when its reference count reaches 0. So it's always bothered me that if I override -dealloc and log the retainCount on the way in, it is 1, not 0. Upon doing some experiments, I believe that the first sentence in that documentation is wrong. It should say this instead: If the receiver's retainCount is greater than 1, decrements it. Otherwise, invokes -dealloc. Reading the document Memory Management Programming Guide ▸ Object Ownership and Disposal, one gets a similar false impression, although this document is vague enough that it is only misleading, not wrong. OK, someone tell me why I'm wrong about this :)_______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
