Oleg Andreev



Software designer with focus on user experience and security.

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Product architect at Chain.

Author of Gitbox version control app.

Author of CoreBitcoin, a Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C.

Author of BTCRuby, a Bitcoin toolkit for Ruby.

Former lead dev of FunGolf GPS, the best golfer's personal assistant.



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Block concatenation

This little function concatenates two blocks in a single one.

Useful when you have a single async operation running while multiple callers wish to subscribe for its completion event with a single message like [self doSomethingWithBlock:^{ … }]. The first caller will start the operation, for all the others the block will be concatenated with the first one.
void(^OABlockConcat(void(^block1)(), void(^block2)()))()
{
  block1 = [[block1 copy] autorelease];
  block2 = [[block2 copy] autorelease];
  
  if (!block1) return block2;
  if (!block2) return block1;
  
  void(^block3)() = ^{
    block1();
    block2();
  };
  
  return [[block3 copy] autorelease];
}