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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Advanced Objective-C Dynamic Typing

Swapnil Kapse
Swapnil Kapse
1,162 Points

Assign an NSNumber literal with a value of '4' to the variable 'thing'. How to solve this?

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Assign an NSNumber literal with a value of '4' to the variable 'thing'. Even though, sentence is written as 'NSNumber *thing = @4;' I am getting error as in earlier challenge's answer is 'id thing = 4;'

Hence, thing is getting defined twice. Please suggest

2 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

I haven't looked at the challenge, but from what I've read here, it sounds like all you'd need to do is reassign the thing variable to an NSNumber literal of 4, like this:

thing = @4;

NSNumber (literal) example:

NSNumber *numberEight = @8;
Swapnil Kapse
Swapnil Kapse
1,162 Points

Even though, sentence is written as 'NSNumber *thing = @4;' I am getting error as earlier challenge's answer is 'id thing = 4;'

thing is getting defined twice. Please suggest