Re: bogus retain via NSEnumerator

[David Stes]

In comp.lang.objective-c John C. Randolph <jcr@nospam.idiom.com> wrote:
> 
> Your definition of the word "normally" is rather bizarre.  As you
> already know, nearly all Obj-C code that exists is based on the Cocoa
> framework.  You may wish this were not the case, but it is.
 
 If you ever wrote a piece of real software, you'd know that portability is
important in the real world; regardless of what you may wish.

 It's not acceptable that a bad memory management of a lousy root class
results in different behavior on Linux and on your Apple OS; it's not the
fault of Linux, it's the fault of the absence of decent design in the autor
release stuff.

 Normal Objective-C doesn't use NSObject and its memory management; this
memory management is really very specific to the "NS" class, and NS does not
stand for normal Objective-C.

 The NS prefix is specifically to indicate that it is a particular
 non-standard vendor specific class.