{"id":1794,"date":"2008-10-09T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2008-10-09T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:52:38","slug":"cocoa-initializers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/cocoa-initializers\/","title":{"rendered":"The How and Why of Cocoa Initializers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/?page=pyblog\/the-how-and-why-of-cocoa-initializers.html\">Mike Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/?page=pyblog\/the-how-and-why-of-cocoa-initializers.html\"><p>This is why the standard initializer pattern is the only one that works. Cocoa classes can <i>and do<\/i> deallocate the original instance, then allocate a new instance of the same class (or a subclass) and return it from their initializers. This is admittedly rare, but it is legal and it does happen. And that, in a nutshell, is why the standard Apple initializer pattern is the only correct way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ash: This is why the standard initializer pattern is the only one that works. Cocoa classes can and do deallocate the original instance, then allocate a new instance of the same class (or a subclass) and return it from their initializers. This is admittedly rare, but it is legal and it does happen. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}