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Re: [Foo new] vs [[Foo alloc] init]:
FROM : Sean McBride
DATE : Fri Feb 15 22:18:09 2008
On 2/15/08 9:11 PM, Keith Duncan said:
>> As far as I understand, [Foo new] is exactly equivalent to [[Foo
>> alloc] init]
>
>Correct.
>
>Chaining alloc and init is just the in vogue convention as far as I
>know. I've been told that -new used to be a popular way of doing it
>back in the days of NeXTStep.
>
>There is noting wrong with using it though.
Well, 'new' is a reserved word in C++, so if you use Cocoa's 'new'
method you'll never be able to use Objective-C++ with that code. It's
kind of like how using 'id' as a variable name in C++ is a bad idea.
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Sean McBride, B. Eng <email_removed>
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
DATE : Fri Feb 15 22:18:09 2008
On 2/15/08 9:11 PM, Keith Duncan said:
>> As far as I understand, [Foo new] is exactly equivalent to [[Foo
>> alloc] init]
>
>Correct.
>
>Chaining alloc and init is just the in vogue convention as far as I
>know. I've been told that -new used to be a popular way of doing it
>back in the days of NeXTStep.
>
>There is noting wrong with using it though.
Well, 'new' is a reserved word in C++, so if you use Cocoa's 'new'
method you'll never be able to use Objective-C++ with that code. It's
kind of like how using 'id' as a variable name in C++ is a bad idea.
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____________________________________________________________
Sean McBride, B. Eng <email_removed>
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
