Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Refcounting problem - idea?

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, 10 August, 2003, at 23:23, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On zaterdag, aug 9, 2003, at 12:14 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
> wrote:
>
>>  As Martina already noted, the combobox probably doesn't retain it's 
>> datasource. There's not much we can do about that. Cocoa seems to do 
>> this quite often, probably to avoid reference counting cycles. Let's 
>> hope that Apple adds a real garbage collector in the future.
>
> I was just wondering: are there *any* places where the user is 
> expected to pass a
> wrapped ObjC object to a method call, and have that object be garbage 
> collected
> when the call returns?

NSArray.arrayWithArray_() is a trivial one and there are many others.

Ronald