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Toolbox programming rule

October 28, 2003 by Mike Cohen

Posted to comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior:

With every CF function, there are two simple rules:
-If the function name includes “Create”, you should release the result
-If the function name includes “Get”, you should *not* release the result

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