Andrew Pontious
Things I didn’t miss from Mac 64-bit programming on iOS — Apple ridiculous inability to handle NSInteger well in format strings.
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Michael Tsai@apontious Is there a good reason not to use “%@“ and box the numbers?
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@mjtsai Feels like extra work. But yes, that’s not bad. -
@apontious,@mjtsai — That seems wrong. What if the description method of a number changes to say "Your current number is: 5!" -
@simX@apontious@mjtsai Or, more plausibly, “@5” or “<NSNumber 0xd3c2b1a0 (float) 5.000000>”. -
@boredzo I suppose that’s possible, but my guess is it would break tons of apps, as well as framework code. - View other replies
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@mjtsai@apontious that does put you slightly at the mercy of the user's locale which I worry about - View other replies
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@mikeabdullah Depends on what method you’re passing the format string to. -
@mjtsai really? There's APIs which don't interpret %@ by calling -description? - View other replies
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@mikeabdullah Hmm. The docs seem to say that both -stringWithFormat: and localizedStringWithFormat: end up calling a “locale” method.
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