Question

Can you describe the naming convention difference between a method that returns an object it has allocated for the caller (and that the caller should release), and a method that returns an autorelease object?

Answer 1

According to this:

1. methods that start with -allocXXX or -newXXX, or contains the word “copy” will/should return an allocated object
2. any method that doesn’t follow rule #1 will/should return an autoreleased object