FBCocoaTutorial

#1 · September 4, 2011, 12:24 am

Posted by: fblistserve <fblistserve@...>

On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Edwards, Waverly wrote:

I believe "new" and [[ object alloc] init] are equivalent.
If you do not have a custom allocator then you are using the the default allocator.
"new" just performs the same allocation and initializing job. Its just shorter.

Also, it is possible a given implementation might need a custom initialization for object. In that case you would want to call it with [[obj alloc] init] to pick up the instance method that does the custom init. The default initialization from the class method ( i.e. '+new' from NSObject) might not be what is desired even though sufficient for most needs.

Brian S

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