Re: Setter Gettor method style

[Martin Häcker]

>  >   - (void) setTitle: (NSString *)newTitle {
> >          [title autorelease];
>
> Here, there  is not  advantage to wait  before releasing  title.  It's
> owned by the object, it can  be released directly. If anybody has been
> interested in title it will have  retained it long ago. Since title is
> overwritten immediately, it cannot  be retrieved after this statement,
> so you can as well use release.
>
> >          title = [newTitle copy];
> >          // or retain, depending on object & usage
>  >   }

:) I certainly don't want to question your wizardry, but as far as I 
understand this this style was chosen because of something like this:

        ...
        NSString *str = [myDocument title];
        ...
        [myDocument setTitle:@"cool"];
        ...
        NSLog(@"I've got a %@", str);

And the string should remain valid for the rest of the routine. 
(Perhaps this also has something to do with OS X having no Garbage 
Collection)

Peace,
Martin
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