Re: NSString initWithUTF8String:...

[Adam Fedor]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, February 11, 2001, at 03:28 PM, Manuel Guesdon wrote:
> 
> > NSString initWithUTF8String: fail with NULL parameter
> > What does OpenStep/NextStep/MacOSX for this case ? Does it consider it's a 
> > zero length
> > string, does it raise an exception
> > or does it crash in strlen,... calls ?
> >
> > I think we should at least raise an exception in this case (?)
> 
> I don't know what MacOS does, but my preference is for tolerance ... it 
> should treat it
> as a zero length string (and perhaps log a warning if compiled for debug - 
> it's what NSDebugMLog() is for).

I agree. By convention, init methods should never cause an exception.
They should either tolerate the input, or at worst, return nil (and emit
a NSLog message) if the input somehow could corrupt the object.