> On Feb 24, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Quincey Morris
> wrote:
>
> The following work, too (Xcode 6.1.1):
>
> let f1: NSNumber = font.pointSize
> let f2 = font.pointSize as NSNumber
>
> ...
>
> (Things may have changed in Swift 1.2, though.)
>
Works fine in 1.2, too.
$ swift
Welcome
On Feb 24, 2015, at 08:14 , Charles Jenkins wrote:
>
> A structure?!? I did look it up in the documentation, and all I found was
> “the basic type for all floating-point values.” That the basis of all
> floating-point types could be a structure never occurred to me.
That’s not really what the
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 04:57 AM, Charles Jenkins wrote:
> My latest fruitless attempt has involved trying to simply cast the value
> into something for which NSNumber has a corresponding init():
>
> let size:Float = font.pointSize as Float
> let points = NSNumber( float: size )
You nee
> On 25 Feb 2015, at 00:14, Charles Jenkins wrote:
>
> A structure?!? I did look it up in the documentation, and all I found was
> “the basic type for all floating-point values.” That the basis of all
> floating-point types could be a structure never occurred to me. Thanks!
>
> Swift is a lan
A structure?!? I did look it up in the documentation, and all I found was “the
basic type for all floating-point values.” That the basis of all floating-point
types could be a structure never occurred to me. Thanks!
Swift is a language I want to like, but currently it makes the easy stuff hard
> On 24 Feb 2015, at 18:57, Charles Jenkins wrote:
>
> I’m surprised how painful it is to do trivial things in Swift.
I’ve stopped being surprised at this.
Between the anal type checking and the spew of optionals I spend all my time
fiddling around trying to get a ‘?’ in the right place or
I’m surprised how painful it is to do trivial things in Swift. All I want to do
is convert NSFont.pointSize to an NSNumber, but I can’t figure out any syntax
the Swift compiler will accept.
My latest fruitless attempt has involved trying to simply cast the value into
something for which NSNumbe
