Re: bogus retain via NSEnumerator

[John C. Randolph]

David Stes wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm well aware of the importance of portability.  That's why I use GCC.

>  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.

GNUStep implements the same retain/release semantics as Apple's
Foundation framework.  If you know of any instance where their behaviors
diverge, then by all means, file a bug report.

-jcr