... and the one after the type? A: In Objective- C you can have a public name and a local name for arguments. The public name becomes part of the selector when someone wants to send that message ... colon, then the type and name of the local variable. Additional arguments get names, types, and variable names, too. The syntax for declaring a message in a header file is the same as in the ... translates a message into an actual method call. It’s basically the method name and the names of the arguments separated by colons. For instance, the code on page 66 is using the selector pickerView:numberOfRowsInComponent....