My personal preference is the latter example. My general rule of thumb is that once I -release or -autorelease an object, I shouldn't interact with it anymore, since I have relinquished ownership of said object.
The only time I don't follow that guideline is when I'm working inside a method that has several different return routes, and cleaning up the appropriate objects at each point would just add to the complexity of the method (which could be argued is already too complex, but that's for another thread). In this case, I'll autorelease the appropriate objects immediately after initialization, thereby sparing me from having to clean stuff up in every single one of the return conditions. Dave On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Vincent Habchi wrote: > Hi everybody, > > just an enquiry regarding coding style. What is considered best: > > baz = [[[Foo alloc] init] autorelease]; > … > return baz; > > or > > baz = [[Foo alloc] init]; > … > return [baz autorelease]; > > ? > > Thanks! > Vincent
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