On 06/03/2014 03:01 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A Python with static typing would have been far better, IMHO. It seems they >> have created a Python-JavaScript bastard with random mix of features. >> Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS... > > More important than the syntax is the semantics. Have they kept the > embarrassment of UTF-16 strings? I skimmed the docs, and I *think* > they've made it support Unicode. No idea how performance and memory > usage are, but once you have the semantics right, you can worry about > performance later.
A Swift string is simply a one-to-one mapping of the NSString class. Apple claims it is "unicode compliant" whatever that means. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/StringsAndCharacters.html In some ways Swift reminds me of Vala. IE it's syntactic sugar around existing class libraries that expose them as basic types. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
