Re: Garbage collector vs variable lifetime

FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Tue Jun 10 22:17:43 2008

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Charles Srstka
<<email_removed>> wrote:

> I think the problem is that if NSArray has +[NSArray array] returning an
> NSArray, then NSMutableArray has to return an NSArray also, since it can't
> have a different method signature for the same method. As a result, if you
> called +[NSMutableArray array], the compiler would think you were getting a
> regular, non-mutable NSArray, and you'd get a warning if you tried to do
> this, although the code would still work:
>
> NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray array];


Ah, yes, so you would. I see!

Hamish