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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Types Printing Results

Posted by Allen Abraham
Allen Abraham
3,063 Points

What is wrong with my code

I also tried

println("Learning / (launguage)")

println.swift 
let language = "Swift"
println("Learning" + language )

3 Answers

Mikael Enarsson
Mikael Enarsson
7,056 Points
Mikael Enarsson
Mikael Enarsson
7,056 Points

It seems that using a backslash ('\') instead of a slash ('/') in the first code you posted (also correcting the spelling of language, of course ^^).

It may be better if someone that's familiar with Swift explains this, but in programming, a backslash often denotes an escape sequence, i.e. some kind of special behavior of the character/sequence following it. For example, "\n" means "insert a newline here" (although I don't know if they use that sequence in Swift).

Allen Abraham
Allen Abraham
3,063 Points
Allen Abraham
Allen Abraham
3,063 Points

Thank you you were correct i had made the mistake of using / instead of \

beven nyamande
beven nyamande
9,575 Points
beven nyamande
beven nyamande
9,575 Points 
//interpolation

var beven = "is interesting and fun" 
println("Swift is"  \(beven))