On Jun 28, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Kevin Muldoon wrote: > I suppose the trouble here is that I'm familiar with Objective-C code and not > so familiar with its parent, C.
Yeah, unfortunately Objective-C does not absolve you of having to know C. With where you’re going, I’d suggest cracking open Kernighan & Ritchie or some other good C book. (It’s a shame Cocoa doesn’t have more powerful stream APIs, or some equivalent of Perl/PHP/Ruby’s ‘unpack’ function, that would let you do this kind of stuff without needing to do pointer grunge. For some reason streams have always been a primary Achilles’ heel of Cocoa. I’ve been coding in it for ten years and I still never use NSFileHandle — if I have to stream data to/from files I just drop down to ANSI C or POSIX I/O calls.) —Jens
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