Re: Garbage collection - was Beginner with Cocoa

FROM : Jack Repenning
DATE : Tue Mar 25 23:01:59 2008

On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> There's a *very* simple set of rules to follow regarding retain/
> release.



Yes, but where are they documented?  Or, if they're so simple, can you 
quote them here?

Not to sound querulous, but what I know of these very simple rules I 
picked up from multiple conversations like this on, where the experts 
seem to say "it's so simple" three to five times for every one time 
they let leak one of these simple rules.  And I've never managed to 
locate these simple rules in any dox.  There's a good, multipage 
memory-management doc, but that's a bit more than "a *very* simple set 
of rules."


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