Re: self = [super init] debate.

FROM : Scott Andrew
DATE : Sun Feb 10 18:35:55 2008

One point of research (going through my books.)

The Cocoa with Objective-C book shows not assigning self.. Arg.. So 
where do we get in the habit of assigning self? Is it bad code 
practice? I know i have done it for the past 4 years out of habit and 
learning from example code and other materials.

Scott

On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Scott Andrew wrote:

> 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
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