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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Collections What is an Array?

Posted by young park
young park
3,241 Points

What are the brackets used for?

The brackets enclosed the array, but what do they mean? I'm trying not to get them cofused with the parentheses. Thanks in advance

1 Answer

Gene Johnson
Gene Johnson
3,471 Points
Gene Johnson
Gene Johnson
3,471 Points

the brackets [] denote the array. they let you tell the computer that you are referring to an array. that is their purpose. () are usually used for strings and {} are usually used for hashes. you will remember the difference as you code more because they are not interchangeable and will become prolific friends in debugging error messages.

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

{} are usually used for hashes

FYI, Swift uses [] for hash.

Ingvi Jonasson
Ingvi Jonasson
12,173 Points

I identify {} from PHP and JS as Objects. What is a hash?