Since Swift is new, it's been designed to handle the "problems" you get with Objective-C's fully dynamic nature. Also, there's only so much you can modify Objective-C before it's no longer a superset of C. You might have heard the reason the caret character was used for blocks is due to it being the only non-ambiguous character that could be used.
Besides, in Swift, we can now have variable names in Klingon script! Well, when Klingon is finally added to Unicode, that is. -- Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone) http://www.garywade.com/ > On Jun 12, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > What problem/issue/deficiency is Swift intended to address? _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
