Does it ever make sense to call [init] outside of [[alloc] init]?

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Published on 2010-05-02T06:37:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 6:47 UTC
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I am wondering if [[alloc] init] is just a convention or if separating the two calls has wider use. For instance, I wonder if people ever call [init] (or friends) on an existing object to "re-initialize" it.

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