self = [super init] debate.

FROM : Scott Andrew
DATE : Sun Feb 10 18:18:45 2008

Ok. Myself, like most Cocoa engineers have learned to write 
initializers like so:

-(id) init
{
   self = [super init];

   if (self != nil)
   {
       .. do my init
   }

   return self;
}

So my question is:

  As i get ready to teach non-cocoa programmers in my company about 
cocoa programming, and having read Will Shipley's blog, Is the above 
the way to teach writing an initializer? I see Will, and a few others, 
say no [super init] will initialize self in its code there is no 
reason to assign self. Yet all code and docs I see have similar code.

Arguments for and against? I know old debate.... ;-)

Scott Andrew