[Biococoa-dev] unichar question

[Koen van der Drift]

On Aug 20, 2004, at 9:17 PM, John Timmer wrote:

> Unichars are basically integers, so the signature of the method is 
> wrong.
> The flipside is that initWithCharacters expects a pointer to the 
> characters,
> so you have to use the & operand to convert it.
>

Yep, that worked.  Thanks!


Another  question (sorry to keep bugging you).


You are using the following code the access a variable:

- (NSString *) name{
     return [[name copy] autorelease];
}


Why not just use:

- (NSString *) name{
     return name;
}

Is there a particular reason why you use this format?


Oh, and what's the difference between symbolString and 
savableRepresentation?

thanks,


- Koen.