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		stefan_kendall on Oct 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: NSString + Ruby I use the same thing to construct NSDecimalNumber instances. N(100.5) instead of [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberFromString:@"100.5"] SO handy.

bennyg on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

You can do this now @(100.5) for NSNumber literals.

dennis_vartan on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

And even shorter, just @100.5 if what you have is a literal. The parentheses are needed if you're boxing a value, e.g.: @(price + 100.5)

In detail: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html

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