Struggling to make sense of some Objective-C code

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Published on 2010-05-21T08:33:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 8:40 UTC
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I'm an Objective-C newbie and am enjoying reading/learning Objective-C in order to do iPhone development but I'm struggling to understand some of the code, especially the code that comes with the UIKit framework.

For example, take this line:

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSelection:(NSInteger)section {
...

I understand the parameters passed in but am struggling to understand the return parameter. Any help appreciated.

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