On 8 Mar '08, at 1:57 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:
Is this expected? Can I rely on it? I will never need to change
dict, but I
am modifying items within a known sub Dictionary.
Don't rely on this; it's entirely possible this behavior could change
in the future, causing your app to throw an
Is it enough then to take the dictionary I get back and do a [dict
mutableCopy]?
Will this cascade down to the subdicts (dicts within the top level
dict).
No it won't. mutableCopy only operates on one particular object and
not all its contained objects. While that behavior does
On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Trygve Inda wrote:
In Carbon I could do:
CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy (kCFAllocatorDefault, localDict,
kCFPropertyListMutableContainersAndLeaves);
Is there a NSDictionary way to do this?
The above. An NSDictionary is toll-free bridged to CFDictionaryRef,
so
On 8 Mar '08, at 1:57 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:
Is this expected? Can I rely on it? I will never need to change
dict, but I
am modifying items within a known sub Dictionary.
Don't rely on this; it's entirely possible this behavior could change
in the future, causing your app to throw an
On Mar 8, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
Don't rely on this; it's entirely possible this behavior could
change in the future, causing your app to throw an exception.
Something much like that happened in 10.4 (I think) — maybe it was
the mutability of collections read from property
