Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 600

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Curylo
On 13-Apr-08, at 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why is it necessary to set the variable appointments (for instance) to nil in this example? Should we do this for each variable? When have we to do this? IMO, it's totally unnecessary. Seems to be a cargo culting thing more than

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 600

2008-04-13 Thread Greg Titus
On Apr 13, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Alex Curylo wrote: No, I can personally assure you that exact practice has led me to finding many dozens -- quite possibly several hundreds by now actually -- of 'calling methods of a deleted object' type bugs in C+ + code, particularly game code I port from