ARC

2019-08-23 Thread Casey McDermott via Cocoa-dev
We started out assuming that ARC was like Python or Java, where you could just allocate objects and it would manage their lifetimes automatically. Then we read about the complexities of ARC, and started adding __weak to upstream references. After we finished, the controller for our main window

Re: Is the list alive? (Leo)

2019-05-29 Thread Casey McDermott via Cocoa-dev
Thanks for the mention of co...@apple-dev.groups.io It looks promising, but this list is still uniquely useful. Apple's documentation is mediocre. Header files sometimes help, but source code is not visible so it requires much guesswork. There are many "gotchas" lurking. Stack Overflow has