[swift-evolution] Convention to avoid conflicts with keywords

Rudolf Adamkovič salutis at me.com
Wed Dec 23 17:13:39 CST 2015


Ah, I missed that one. Thanks for letting me know, Félix!

From The Swift Programming Language:

> To use a reserved word as an identifier, put a backtick (`) before and after it. For example, class is not a valid identifier, but `class` is valid.

Great!

R+

> On 24 Dec 2015, at 00:05, Félix Cloutier <felixcca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Swift uses backticks: for `case` in cases
> 
> Additionally, you can use (almost) any character inside backticks, including operator characters.
> 
> Félix
> 
>> Le 23 déc. 2015 à 18:01:20, Rudolf Adamkovič via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
>> 
>> In Python, a single trailing underscore is used by convention to avoid conflicts with language keywords:
>> 
>> for case in cases
>> ...
>> 
>> What about Swift?
>> 
>> Also, it would be great to document this in Swift’s API Design Guidelines.
>> 
>> R+
>> 
>> Rudolf Adamkovic
>> 
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