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Shaun Kelly
5,648 PointsI know but i'm asking if the NSLog(@"%d",number); is a object because we are stating the @ symbol to produce getter and setter methods? and perform object allocation and initialisation in one step and return an instance variable ?
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Roberto Alicata
Courses Plus Student 39,959 PointsNSLog is a command used to print something in the console.
@"xxxxxx" is used to generate a NSString.
%d is used to tell the format of the variable we'll pass after the string( %d prints out an integer).
number is the variable to format.
so:
NSLog(@"%d", number);
prints the variable number as an integer in the console.