[swift-users] Why there's no Character literals?

[Rick Mann]

> On Jul 10, 2016, at 11:44 , Saagar Jha via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, what if you wanted to create a String with one character? There’s no way to differentiate.

That hardly seems like the justification. In that case, you'd specify the type:

    let s: String = '\n'


> 
> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 02:35, 王 黎明 via swift-users [swift-users at swift.org](mailto:swift-users at swift.org) wrote: >
> 
> In Swift, we must specify the type for Character variables(because there’s no Character literals):
> 
> let eol: Character = “\n”
> 
> it's not a big problem, but, Is it the unique case that can’t use type infer?
> 
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