iphone - NSDateFormatter's init method is deprecated?

Question

Per

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDateFormatter_Class/Reference/Reference.html

The init method of NSDateFormatter is "Available in iPhone OS 2.0 through iPhone OS 3.2", and therefore not in 4.0. Now, it certainly works, but this seems odd. Is this is a mistake or is there some other way to create a NSDateFormatter?

Answer 1

This deprecation is just apple cleaning up the headers for NSDateFormatter. init is already declared in NSObject which NSNumberFormatter inherits from. Redeclaring is not necessary, however in the implementation apple will override init as subclassess should provide implementations for the default initializer of the superclass.