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The Structures of init and awake

The init method must begin with an invocation of super's init method and must end by returning self.

	- init {
		[super init];
		/* initializations go here */
		return self;
	}

Likewise, in Java, the constructor must begin with an invocation of the superclass's constructor (as with all Java classes):

	public Application() {
		super();
		/* initializations go here */
	}

The awake method has no such structure. In it, you don't need to send a message to super or return anything.

	- awake {
		/* initializations go here */
	}
	public void awake () {
		/* initializations go here. */
	}

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