Maybe they don’t have a standalone thing like “x” : y, and so array-like definition with colons becomes a dict Uko On 03 Jun 2014, at 03:22, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

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