How Objective-C messaging works
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How Objective-C messaging works
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Re: How Objective-C messaging works
#2What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
Re: How Objective-C messaging works
#3What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
It's the author being cute I think. I've never heard of it either.
Re: How Objective-C messaging works
#4What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
Yes dude,
it just an example hexadecimal representation. Don't take everything so literally...
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#50xreadbook is not hexedecimal and disqualifies this whole post from any kind of intellectual redemption.
Try 0xDEADBEEF,0xBAADF00D, or any constant listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
Re: How Objective-C messaging works
#6What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
Yes dude, it just an example hexadecimal representation. Don't take everything so literally...
Literally? A tutorial for noobs should be literally accurate -- throwing around non-proper representations is just a cloudy lazy explanation.
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#7Well at least the 16 year old tried?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes dude, it just an example hexadecimal representation. Don't take everything so literally...
Literally? A tutorial for noobs should be literally accurate -- throwing around non-proper representations is just a cloudy lazy explanation.
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Re: How Objective-C messaging works
#9Try these if you'd like an actual explanation of how Obj-C messaging works.
http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-11-16-lets-buil...
http://www.friday.com/bbum/2009/12/18/objc_msgsend-part-1-th...