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Namespaced constants in C
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
// .h file
struct MyConstantsStruct
{
NSString *foo;
NSString *bar;
int baz;
};
extern const struct MyConstantsStruct MyConstants;
// .m file
const struct MyConstantsStruct MyConstants = {
.foo = @"foo",
.bar = @"bar",
.baz = 42
};
// user
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
[NSAutoreleasePool new];
NSLog(@"%@ %@ %d", MyConstants.foo, MyConstants.bar, MyConstants.baz);
}
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mikeash commented Jan 30, 2012

ARC does allow it, but unfortunately you must put __unsafe_unretained before all of the object pointer struct members to make ARC happy.

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