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the hell is this witchcraft? http://cdecl.ridiculousfish.com/?q=cast+foo+into+block%28int...

Apple extension to C language for blocks/lambdas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)

Tat explains it why I haven't seen it then. I was afraid there for a second I was losing my mind.

"Blocks" seem to be an Objective C feature.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...

Technically an extension to plain C, with some Objective-C integration.

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