Language and Computation

DAY 10, and a little bit of progress. I found one error, which was about to drive me mad, until I more or less by accident stumbled over the solution on stackoverflow.com; in answering a slightly different question, Rob Napier commented on a bug in the way NSLog() was used.
NSLog(@"Returning %@ rows", [nodes count]);
Here, the -count method returns an int, but the %@ symbol expects an object. Result: a bus error. You need to use %d instead. And here was I, thinking how great it is not to bother with the old printf format codes, using the %@ way instead. I hate the primitive type/object distinction!

I then also found that I had created two superimposed Table Views (did I mention that I don’t really like Interface Builder after all?), so that my table got overwritten and looked all wrong. Now I’m struggling with getting the table to start at the first entry, not the 35th (indexPath seems to start counting sections at 1, rather than 0), and all of a sudden my database won’t work.

Preparing a straightforward SQL statement suddenly fails. I did not change that part of the code, the database file is still the same as it used to be before the error occurred, and I did tell XCode to do a full clean. Still, the error remains.

Grmph.