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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Advanced Objective-C Dynamic Typing

Posted by Ong Jia Xin
Ong Jia Xin
8,188 Points

Difficulty with Challenge

Question: Assign an NSNumber literal with a value of '4' to the variable 'thing'.

id thing= nil; NSNumber *thing = @4;

I do not understand what is wrong with my code. Some help please. Thank you!

1 Answer

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points
Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points

Try this instead:

id thing= nil; 
thing = @4;
Ong Jia Xin
Ong Jia Xin
8,188 Points

It worked! Thanks Thomas. =)