Maybe they don’t have a standalone thing like “x” : y, and so array-like definition with colons becomes a dict
Uko On 03 Jun 2014, at 03:22, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > So Apple has a new language > > https://developer.apple.com/swift/ > > which is quite interesting since it works on top of their Objective-C > runtime, which is pretty similar to what we are used to. There is of course > lots of syntactic sugar to make things look easy, and more typing. > > I am still digesting it, but one thing that I wonder is how they implement > the literal syntax for simple collections: > > [ 1, 2, 3 ] for an Array > > and > > [ "x" : 1, "y" : 2 ] for a Dictionary > > how do they differentiate between the two ? > > Maybe if we knew, it could be a solution to our 'missing' dictionary literals. > > Sven > > > >
