On 03/11/2009, at 11:58 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:

having a bit of a time understanding this:  ->

i think it's used to point to a member of a supplied argument of the method?

- (void)method:(NSRange *)aRange ofSize:(NSSize *)aSize
{
aRange->location = 0;
aSize->height = 4.0;
}

-> is just a pointer. It even looks like one!



is it not possible to use dot notation here?

Yes, but since here the range is passed as pointer-to-range, you need to dereference:

*aRange.location = 0;

aRange->location = 0 is clearer, IMO.

--Graham


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