June 2, 2014
9:52 p.m.
So Apple has a new language https://developer.apple.com/swift/ which is quite interesting since it works on top of their Objective-C runtime, which is pretty similar to what we are used to. There is of course lots of syntactic sugar to make things look easy, and more typing. I am still digesting it, but one thing that I wonder is how they implement the literal syntax for simple collections: [ 1, 2, 3 ] for an Array and [ "x" : 1, "y" : 2 ] for a Dictionary how do they differentiate between the two ? Maybe if we knew, it could be a solution to our 'missing' dictionary literals. Sven