Is it possible to use NSArray, NSDictionary, and NSNumber “literals” in Xcode 4.3? (LLVM 4.0)

Question

Apparently, the new Objective-C literals have landed into the clang trunk, and thus lifted the shadowy veil of any NDA's.

My question… HOW can I, in God's name, use these constructs (see below) in Xcode ⋜ v4.3. If not, and I'm stuck waiting for the XCode 4.4 / OSX 10.8 / LLVM 4.0 trifecta, could the same functionality be jerry-rigged somehow - via some clever categories, etc.?

(For all y'all that don't know… these new syntaxes mean that there will be the much-appreciated additional constructs for creating NSArray, NSDictionary, and NSNumber.)

Answer 1

I found a non-official way to do this… Using the Lumumba Framework on github, there is a whole kit'n'caboodle of Syntactic sugar categories that had the following defines… which achieve the desired effect.

#define $(...)        ((NSString *)[NSString  stringWithFormat:__VA_ARGS__,nil])
#define $array(...)   ((NSArray *)[NSArray arrayWithObjects:__VA_ARGS__,nil])
#define $set(...)     ((NSSet *)[NSSet setWithObjects:__VA_ARGS__,nil])
#define $map(...)     ((NSDictionary *)[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:__VA_ARGS__,nil])
#define $int(A)       [NSNumber numberWithInt:(A)]
#define $ints(...)    [NSArray arrayWithInts:__VA_ARGS__,NSNotFound]
#define $float(A)     [NSNumber numberWithFloat:(A)]
#define $doubles(...) [NSArray arrayWithDoubles:__VA_ARGS__,MAXFLOAT]
#define $words(...)   [[@#__VA_ARGS__ splitByComma] trimmedStrings]
#define $concat(A,...) { A = [A arrayByAddingObjectsFromArray:((NSArray *)[NSArray arrayWithObjects:__VA_ARGS__,nil])]; }

So, basically, instead of…

NSArray *anArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
    object, @"aWord", [NSNumber numberWithInt:7], nil];

It's just…

NSArray *anArray = $array(object, @"aWord", $int(7));

Ahhh, brevity.

Answer 2

Sorry, this is Xcode 4.4 only.