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iOS Object-Oriented Objective-C Memory, Arrays and Loops, Oh My! Immersive Example - Gabe's KFC

Daniel Kokin
Daniel Kokin
1,496 Points
Posted by Daniel Kokin
Daniel Kokin
1,496 Points

Are quotation marks and parentheses interchangeable in an array?

In all of the lessons we've seen quotation marks surrounding the each element, yet the KFC problem used data with parentheses.

I tried using parentheses in the historyClass example and xcode says "use of undeclared identifier 'chris' (in addition to the other names in the array).

    NSMutableArray *seatingArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:  @(Page), @(Chris), @(Earnest), @(Mike), @(John), nil];

1 Answer

Matt Casanova
Matt Casanova
15,864 Points

In the previous examples the array items were NSStrings he used the string literal syntax @"SomeString". Here he is using enum values, which are not strings, but names for constant integral values. The syntax @(SomeEnum) syntax converts the enum into integral form and stores it in the array. Here is a link I found: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html