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

I don't get the part of assigning a NSNumber literal to an ID

the test asks you to do that but in the video it doesn't say something related to that, it says that is a pointer and if i create a NSNumber variable and then assign it to the ID it says it's an error, can somebody help me?

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

id types are pointers already. so to assign an NSNumber literal to an id type simply use

id thing = nil;
thing = @4;

thanks i thought it was all about creating a new NSNumber and then point it to that