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iOS Swift Closures Closures in iOS Using a Closure

dexter foo
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why in a lot of Pasan's videos does he define something as a constant but says he's defining it as a variable?

I realised, in quite a number of his videos, when he says he is going to define something as a variable, he declares it as a let instead. Is there something that i missed out? Because it is really confusing me.

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Enrique Munguía
Enrique Munguía
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Enrique Munguía
Enrique Munguía
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I guess it is just a habit, when programming we think about variables all the time, that's how almost every programming language works, but in Swift there is a preference of let over var when you know that the value will never change. If you understand clearly the difference between those keywords you will do fine.

dexter foo
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dexter foo
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Oh ok thanks that cleared my doubts!!