Swift: Support for single quotes as Character when inferring

Originator:mc
Number:rdar://17487522 Date Originated:2014-06-27
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:Xcode 6 beta 2
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
In Swift, 

var string = "foo"    makes a String varialble.
var char   = 'b'        isn't valid syntax but rather
var char: Character = "b"      has to be used

Why is that? I also saw that the escape character \'  existed although there's no real need for it since " ' " is prefectly valid.

Please add support for single quoting for Characters as in other languages.

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