Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Wed May 21 23:09:11 2008

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Johnny Lundy <<email_removed>> wrote:

> All it would take is a single sentence under the "Class Methods" header, to
> say that these methods autorelease the returned object (AND that such
> autoreleasing means that the object will be deallocated if the method in
> which it was created returns).


No: autorelease is useful precisely because the object will not be
deallocated when the method in which it was created returns. Please
see http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/MemoryMgmt/Concepts/ObjectOwnership.html.

Hamish