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Wayne Knoesen
9,435 PointsNSDictionary
At work I was shown a nicer way to make a dictionary (IMO),
NSDictionary *dict = @{@"title" : @"My title", @"Another key" : @"The object"};
It I can get it in the log so it seems like I dont need to alloc or anything either. I was wondering if this is good practice? It was easier to understand for me and seems easier to write. The guy who showed me is a good programmer but doesnt care much for teaching ;-)
1 Answer
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherThis is called a literal and is a perfectly legitimate way to write code in Objective-C. The latest version of the compiler introduced a feature called Objective-C literals. You can read more about it here: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html
Wesley Ellis
3,818 PointsWesley Ellis
3,818 PointsReviewing the Apple documentation file on NSDictionary, I find "If you don’t want a temporary object, you can also create an empty dictionary using alloc... and init.".
So, while you may use the method you mention above, you must keep in mind that <code>dict</code> will be in the autoReleasePool. If you need to use it elsewhere, it would be best to allocate and initiate an instance.