Re: Questions about memory management (was Re: I must be missing something... (Categories))

In article <uce-A4F316.09013724052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <qvWdnaAVksXLA6rVnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Don Bruder <dakidd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > I think I've got that part, now. But it would have been quicker if 
> > someone had just said "The init that runs is the init in the class of 
> > the object that you just alloc-ed",
> 
> You mean like this: "When you send the 'init' message you're sending it 
> to that allocated object, so your init'ing a control. You won't get the 
> button initialization"

Apparently... Dunno why, but that just didn't "click" for me. I looked 
at it probably a dozen times, and each time, kept wondering "But how, 
when the object hasn't been turned into a "MyButton" yet???" Now that 
I've managed to get my head wrapped around the concept that the alloc 
step takes care of turning it into a "MyButton", it makes sense.
> 
> > which is what I've been trying to 
> > figure out all along. Up to now, I've been under the impression - now 
> > clearly wrong - that the super's init was the one that was being 
> > invoked.
> 
> No. Super's init *is* the one that's being invoked because super is the 
> class for which alloc was invoked and is the class of the type alloc 
> handed back.

AUGH!!!!!

I just thought I had it figured out, and now you're telling me I've 
*STILL* got it backwards?!?!?

I think I'm gonna cry...

Or my head is gonna explode...

Or SOMETHING...

So which is it?!?!? I'm wrong when I think super's init runs. I *THINK* 
I've got it that it's the alloced object's init that runs. Now you tell 
me that's wrong - it *IS* super's init that runs. ONE OF THESE RESPONSES 
IS WRONG, and I'll be damned if I can figure out which one!

I'm back to thinking I'm too stupid to be dicking around in OOP-land and  
I ought to just stick to straight C/Carbon. So much for having it 
figured out... <sigh>

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