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iOS Components and Frameworks: Understanding the Advanced Features of the iOS SDK
by Kyle Richter, Joe Keeley
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 3m
English
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Literals
When Xcode 4.4 was released in July of 2012, the compiler was updated to add support for several new types of literal syntax that make declaring and using NSNumber, NSArray, and NSDictionary much simpler and much more readable. The new syntax follows the lead of NSString literals by using the @ prefix with syntactical elements to define Objective-C objects:
NSString *aString = @"This is a string.";
Now, an @ symbol followed by numbers, brackets, curly braces, or parentheses has special meaning and represents an Objective-C object:
NSNumber *integerNumber = @45;NSArray *workArray = @[aString, floatNumber, integerNumber];NSDictionary *workDict = @{ @"float": floatNumber, ...
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