Re: Is @"constantstring" pointer equal to @"constantstring" aguarantee?
Re: Is @"constantstring" pointer equal to @"constantstring" aguarantee?
- Subject: Re: Is @"constantstring" pointer equal to @"constantstring" aguarantee?
- From: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:59:51 -0400
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Jeff Laing <email@hidden> wrote:
> What confuses me is that people keep talking about @"constant" as though
> it were a 'string constant'
>
> Its not, it's an Objective-C object that you can send messages to.
> [snip]
> What is the subtlety here that I must be missing?
@"" strings are actually instances of an immutable private NSString
subclass. I think it's called _NSConstantString or some such. Of
course this is an implementation detail.
--Kyle Sluder
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