Re: [PATCH] Fix NSMenu retainCount problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Feb 2004, at 14:47, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Quentin Mathé wrote:
> > the user shouldn't have to know the framework implementation. In other
> > terms, correct objective-c memory management needs to support this 
> > rule
> > : sending a message to an object should never induce increased retain
> > count for this object.
>
> I don't think this rule should be adopted. It's blatantly false for a
> huge number of methods. While I can see that it would be useful in some
> odd cases, the huge number of exceptions would make it difficult to 
> rely
> on.

Agreed ... this is not a rule that holds on MacOS-X, and it's not even 
implied
in any of the documentation I know of.
It's definitely not required for 'correct' memory management.