On Oct 2, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Koen van der Drift <koenvanderdr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When looking how to implement an NSOperationQueue with a loop, I found
> several examples that have the following structure:
>
> NSInteger i;
>
> for ( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ ) {
> [queue addOperationWithBlock:^{
> i += 1;
> }];
> }
>
> But I get a compiler error: Variable is not assignable (missing __block type
> specifier)
>
> I solved by declaring the declaration for i:
>
> NSInteger __block i;
>
> But why does it work in the examples I found?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Koen.
I can't speak to the other examples since I haven't seen them, but the __block
specifier is necessary if your block modifies the variable (your block does
modify i). Your example also seems a bit strange since your for loop modifies i
itself.
Dave
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