> On Oct 5, 2015, at 18:47 , Charles Srstka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 8:19 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 18:12 , Jens Alfke <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> NSURLComponents is a class, not a struct, so ‘url3’ is a reference, not a 
>>> value, and ‘let’ just means you can’t reassign ‘url3’ to point to another 
>>> object.
>> 
>> But it wasn't allowed in the copy() case.
> 
> That’s because it doesn’t *know* it’s a class in the copy() case. An 
> AnyObject could be a class *or* a struct. The compiler errs on the side of 
> caution.

Huh. I continue to be bothered by the ambiguity/variability of "let"*. Is the 
reference immutable or the thing it points to? I wish I could specify which is 
important in the code I'm writing. And I'm not sure I like the different 
treatment for structs, although I can accept it.

*Okay, maybe it's not ambiguous, but it often seems to be the opposite of what 
I want.

-- 
Rick Mann
[email protected]



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