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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Functions Syntax and Parameters

Blaine Fallis
Blaine Fallis
2,449 Points
Posted by Blaine Fallis
Blaine Fallis
2,449 Points

string interpolation was hard at first but I read about it at developer.apple. made more sense. Is it unique to Swift?

Amit sort of dove right in with it in Swift Basic, but I hadn't seen that syntax in other languages.

the iOS developer library has a good explanation of it:

"You can also use strings to insert constants, variables, literals, and expressions into longer strings, in a process known as string interpolation. This makes it easy to create custom string values for display, storage, and printing."

I get the feeling it's a very important aspect of swift?

1 Answer

Jason Wayne
Jason Wayne
11,688 Points
Jason Wayne
Jason Wayne
11,688 Points

No. String interpolation is a concept used in almost all languages (ruby, objective-c and etc..) . The only difference is as you pointed out the syntax.