New API Using Blocks
Several new C library calls have been introduced using blocks. They have _b appended to their names to indicate they are block calls, similar to the way some library functions have _r appended to indicate re-entrant calls. Some of the more useful ones are:
| qsort_b() | quicksort using a block for a comparator |
| bsearch_b() | binary search using a block for a comparator |
| psort_b() | parallel sort using a block for a comparator |
| glob_b() | generate pathnames matching a pattern, using a block for an error callback |
| scandir_b() | collect pathnames, using blocks for a path selection and comparison |
Cocoa has introduced a large number of block-oriented methods. An easy way to find them all is to search through the framework headers looking for the caret. ...
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