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Foundation Kit

The Foundation Kit, or just Foundation for short, is an Objective-C framework in the OpenStep specification described by NeXT Computer, Inc. It provides basic classes such as wrapper classes and data structure classes. This framework uses the prefix NS (for NeXTSTEP). It is also part of Cocoa and of the Swift standard library.

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Foundation Kit

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples42
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

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Foundation Kit

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related to ApportableFoundation · 9
Foundation Kit → Android, Apple's CFLite, ApportableFoundation, CFNetwork, CoreFoundation, Darling, Foundation, It, Linux
related to macOS and iOS · 8
Foundation Kit → Beginning, Cocoa, Cocoa API, Cocoa Touch API, OpenStep, OPENSTEP/Mach, The Foundation Kit, This
related to GNUstep · 6
Foundation Kit → Apple, GNUstep's Base Package, OpenStep API, The, The Foundation Kit, This
related to Cocotron · 5
Foundation Kit → Cocoa, Cocotron, Darling, It, The Foundation Kit
related to NSValue and NSNumber · 3
Foundation Kit → NSNumber, NSValue, The
part of · 1
Foundation Kit → the macOS Cocoa API

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foundation cocoa kit data classes framework macos openstep implementation also objects api part objective-c gnustep cocotron wrapper nsvalue nsnumber swift

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Foundation Kitpart ofthe macOS Cocoa API0.85text
wrapper classesinstance ofIt provides basic classes0.80text
data structure classesinstance ofIt provides basic classes0.80text
intinstance ofand NSNumber is a wrapper class for C number data types0.80text
doubleinstance ofand NSNumber is a wrapper class for C number data types0.80text
and floatinstance ofand NSNumber is a wrapper class for C number data types0.80text
NSValueinstance ofso wrappers0.80text
NSNumber are used in those data structures.NSArrayinstance ofso wrappers0.80text
NSMutableArrayA dynamic array of objectsinstance ofso wrappers0.80text
supporting constant-time indexinginstance ofso wrappers0.80text
NSNumber are used in those data structuresinstance ofso wrappers0.80text
Foundation Kitrelated to ApportableFoundationApportableFoundation0.60section

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