Swift: "let" is a weird choice

Originator:brent
Number:rdar://17296912 Date Originated:12-Jun-2014 08:10 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:Xcode6-Beta (6A215l)
Classification:Feature (New) Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
No fancy structure, I’ll just come out and say it: I don’t really like “let”. It doesn’t read like defining a constant to me.

My alternative suggestion is “def”. It’s short for “define”, which seems appropriately definitive (and is used in C for preprocessor-based “constants”), and matches “var” and “func” in being an abbreviation.

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