[swift-users] Justification for Swift Design Decisions?

[David Sweeris]

Specifically WRT to double quotes for characters, the Commonly Rejected Changes doc (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/commonly_proposed.md) says, "Swift takes the approach of highly valuing Unicode. However, there are multiple concepts of a character that could make sense in Unicode, and none is so much more commonly used than the others that it makes sense to privilege them. We'd rather save single quoted literals for a greater purpose (e.g. non-escaped string literals)."

Otherwise, off the top of my head I'm not sure. If it's a particularly controversial decision, there's a fair chance it's come up on the swift-evolution list, though, so maybe search its archives?

Hope that helps,
- Dave Sweeris

> On Oct 31, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Michael Rogers via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, All:
> 
> I’m giving a presentation on Swift this weekend, and am trying to find justification for some of the design decisions that they made. Is there anything out there that goes into the detail of this? Like … why did the use “ for characters, or \() for String interpolation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
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