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iOS Swift and semi-colons - are you using them

Are you using semi-colons in Swift?

  • Yes, semi-colons for life

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Nah, lose them like old baggage

    Votes: 17 85.0%
  • Total voters
    20
theSeb

theSeb

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Aug 10, 2010
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I am curious what others are doing. I find old habits are hard to shake after a couple of decades of writing code and I keep adding the semi-colon after statements, even though I don't need to.

I feel that a semi-colon is the "completion" of yet another great line of code :D and it seems odd to me to not have one. I also think it makes code more readable because I don't expect semi-colons on conditional statements, loops and so forth.

What are others doing? Have you managed to lose the semi-colon like it's old baggage, or are you holding on?
 
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Sean7512

macrumors 6502a
Jun 8, 2005
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I've been using Groovy a lot since 2010 and so I have gotten used to not having any semi-colons.
 
PhoneyDeveloper

PhoneyDeveloper

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Sep 2, 2008
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When you go to the continent do you use Euros or pounds sterling?

Semicolons are so twentieth century.
 
ArtOfWarfare

ArtOfWarfare

macrumors G3
Nov 26, 2007
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I haven't heard any arguments for using them (unlike with JavaScript) so no, I don't use them.

It saddens me that Swift has curly braces. It needs to ditch them, as Python and Boo have.
 
Ritmo

Ritmo

macrumors member
Mar 27, 2009
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Finland
After having gone through couple Swift tutorials I felt weird going back to Objective-C. For first few lines I kept forgetting *asterix and semicolons. :/
 
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larswik

macrumors 68000
Sep 8, 2006
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I know you don;t need them but if you work with other languages requiring them and it doesn;t hurt to use them in Swift so I continue to use them. I also still use () for my conditions in IF statements. To me it is more readable to see them still then not;
 
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kyussmondo

macrumors regular
Apr 7, 2010
105
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UK
No I don't use them. I spend a lot of time using Ruby as well so I am more used to not using semi-colons.

I forget to use semi-colons in Objective-C all of the time now, including the @ for strings.
 
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AppSwage

macrumors newbie
Jan 18, 2015
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When I started working with Python I though the lack of the ";" and "{" and "[", etc. made the language seem almost like a toy. That didn't last long as I quickly got used to how much more efficient and easier to read the code was. I haven't moved to Swift yet (although I have been studying it) but I won't miss the million and half square brackets when I do that is for sure. I won't miss the semicolon either....
 
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