categories – one that is extremely universal and handy for shorter and, in my opinion, more memory-manageable\u00c2\u00a0code. \u00c2\u00a0(Code below.)<\/em><\/p>\n Edit<\/em><\/strong>: Commenter David found a bug in this implementation. Check out the fixed version here<\/a>; the new source files are listed at the bottom of that post. (The fix doesn’t require any change in usage or in the header file, just in the .m file).<\/p>\n The idea is very simple – we can replace code that looks like this:<\/p>\n with this:<\/p>\n As you can guess, we’re basically replacing the<\/p>\n pair with a single method,<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Besides giving us much shorter code (more readable, less clutter, friendlier to inlining new objects), this method also encourages use of autoreleased objects. \u00c2\u00a0To really go into why I think this is a good thing, we need another blog post; but I can say briefly that autorelease is the Objective coder’s smart pointer. \u00c2\u00a0It helps the code, not the coder, remember what needs cleaning up.<\/p>\n Without further ado, here’s the extremely simple yet incredibly useful category:<\/p>\nUIView *view = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:myFrame] autorelease];\r\nMyObject *obj = [[[MyObject alloc] init] autorelease];<\/pre>\n
UIView *view = [[UIView be] initWithFrame:myFrame];\r\nMyObject *obj = [MyObject beInit];<\/pre>\n
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