rundown of the Objective-C Type Encodings

类型编码表作用：目前自己用到的就是将基础类型encode之后，及OC类型对象当做参数放入集合类型中；再用到的时候，通过类型判断，解析相应值。如可以用到任意block调用（NSinvocation中同时传递的参数数组）或者其他模型对象解析中。

例子：

@encode(int) → i

类型编码表。

c  A char
i  An int
s  A short
l  A longl is treated as a 32-bit quantity on 64-bit
programs.
q  A long long
C  An unsigned char
I  An unsigned int
S  An unsigned short
L  An unsigned long
Q  An unsigned long long
f  A float
d  A double
B  A C++ bool or a C99 _Bool
v  A void
*  A character string (char *)
@  An object (whether statically typed or typed id)
#  A class object (Class)
:  A method selector (SEL)
[array type]    An array
{name=type...} A structure
(name=type...) A union
bnum A bit field of num bits
^type A pointer to type
? An unknown type (among other things, this code is
used for function pointers)

（摘录自 NSHipster_ Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective-）