How does objective-c know what is going to be returned by an anonymous object?

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Published on 2010-04-30T01:21:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 1:27 UTC
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- (void) doSomething: (id)with {
    int a;
    a = [with doSomething];
}

How does the compiler know what type [with doSomething] is going to return? Does it assume an int, since that's what I'm assigning to?

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