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Re: Returning a nil float?
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Re: Returning a nil float?


  • Subject: Re: Returning a nil float?
  • From: Dave DeLong <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:46:24 -0700

You can't do that.  Instead, return an NSNumber, from which you can deduce that a nil NSNumber is different from an NSNumber with a floatValue of 0.0.

Cheers,

Dave

On Jan 29, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote:

> i'm almost 100% sure it's not possible to return a nil on basic data
> types, but just incase i'll post the question.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> - (float)panForSoundWithName:(NSString *)soundName
> 	{
> 	OpenALSound *sound = [soundDictionary objectForKey:soundName];
> 	if (!sound) return 0.0f;
> 	return sound.pan;
> 	}
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> so above i'd like to write "if (!sound) return nil;".  my reasoning is
> because some attributes to a sound object (like pan) are created only
> when the sound is initialized.  if there is no sound object than there
> should also be no pan value to return.  unfortunately, the float
> default 0.0f is also the default value for pan (range from -1.0 to
> 1.0).

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