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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Just one more thing - Swift thread

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Mind you, this is coming from a non-iOS developer, but is there any reason for variables in strings to be surrounded by parentheses, with the opening one escaped? All the examples of strings with variables I've seen use this, and I haven't seen any other methods of using variables in strings.

An example from the docs regarding Strings and Characters:

code:

println("unusualMenagerie has \(countElements(unusualMenagerie)) characters")

This just seems really strange when a curly bracket is rarely used outside of maths, music and programming; parentheses are used quite commonly by comparison, so it seems strange on first glance that to pass a variable into a string, you have to escape a character for it.

Unless Swift has a string format method that I haven't been able to find, but it seems like an odd design choice to me.

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