New Objective-C literal syntax for NSNumber, NSArray, NSDictionary (joris.kluivers.nl)

A few years ago there was rampant speculation that Apple was going to bless some other language to overcome the deficiencies in Objective-C. Now it seems they're just amping the compiler with things like this, and the adding things like ARC to the runtime.

A step in the right direction.

The @ symbol makes sense given the precedence of @"" strings