Compiler error “expected method not found” when using subscript on NSArray

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You’ve got to be compiling with the iOS 6 or OS X 10.8 SDKs — otherwise Foundation objects don’t have the necessary methods for the subscripting bit of the literal syntax.* Specifically in this case, the subscripting expects objectAtIndexedSubscript: to be implemented by NSArray, and that’s a new method that was created to interact with this compiler feature. The parts of the new syntax that just have to do with object creation should work fine, though — I don’t believe that requires any new methods.

Further reading at http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html

*I base this on a bit of research performed by borrrden: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11407844/603977

I’ve gotten a lot of upvotes on this answer, which I really feel is founded on borrrden’s. Please, if you think my answer is worth an upvote, click through and vote there too.

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