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

[Saagar Jha]

Yes, but then a similar complaint could be made that I wanted a String this time. The only real way to tell the difference is to use something like single quotes.

> On Jul 10, 2016, at 14:03, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jul 10, 2016, at 11:44 , Saagar Jha via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Well, what if you wanted to create a String with one character? There’s no way to differentiate.
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> That hardly seems like the justification. In that case, you'd specify the type:
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>    let s: String = '\n'
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>>> 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: >
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>> In Swift, we must specify the type for Character variables(because there’s no Character literals):
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>> let eol: Character = “\n”
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>> it's not a big problem, but, Is it the unique case that can’t use type infer?
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