Static NSArray of strings - how/where to initialize in a View Controller

Question

In a Master-Detail app I\'d like to display a TableView with 5 sections titled:

1. Your Move
2. Their Move
3. Won Games
4. Lost Games
5. O

Answer 1

dispatch_once works. It works in complicated cases, and it works in simple cases. So to be consistent, the best thing is to use it in all cases. That makes it for example a lot easier when you replace all your constant strings with calls to NSLocalizedString (). No code change needed.

Doing things in + (void)initialize isn't really wrong, but I have had situations where I first wanted to configure a class before really using it, and initialize is of course called just before any possible configuration method would start executing. And there are situations where you don't really have a class context. dispatch_once will always work.