Date: Oct 10/31/10 3:08 PM Subject: [Submit08] Wednesday! ** MacTechGroup Meeting Wednesday Nov 3 7PM From: "Owen Hartnett" MacTechGroup The MacTechGroup holds meetings for Macintosh programmers on the first Wednesday of each month at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Next Meeting: Nov 3 2010 7:00 PM Building E51 Room 315 MIT Sloan School (Note: we are in room 315 at least until Jan.) Blocks in C and Objective-C John Shockey Apple has added "blocks" to C and Objective-C. They are somewhat similar to closures, lambdas, and anonymous functions from other languages, but if the devil is in the details, then there are a lot of devilish details. Apple is taking blocks seriously. If you're using the latest features in Mac OS X or iOS, you're not going to be able to get far without them. I'll talk about why to use them, how to use them, and what you need to know about how they work, and how they interact with other language features. At the risk of a little controversy, I'll also suggest a few areas of the definition that I intend to avoid as much as possible, and why perhaps you should as well. ************************ You can get a map showing building E51 at The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday) You can get more information on the MacTechGrp and directions at http://www.mactechgroup.org. Sometimes even the meeting announcements are up to date. To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group, email owen@clipboardinc.net _______________________________________________ MacTechGroup-annouce mailing list MacTechGroup-annouce@lists.mactechgroup.org http://lists.mactechgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/mactechgroup-annouce _______________________________________________ Submit08 mailing list Submit08@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/submit08