Emoji Variables in Swift #🚀

Swift allows developers to specify variable names in unicode, which is very helpful if you and the rest of the developers to ever touch your code speak a non-english language which uses unicode characters:

let 你好 = "你好世界"

It is also useful if you want to specify special constants such as

let π = 3.14159

most importantly though, it allows developers to use emojis for variable names:

let 🐶🐮 = "dogcow"
let ＃🚀 = "Hashrocket"
NSLog(＃🚀)

but don't take my word for it, read the official documentation which contains some of the above examples.

Note: the pound sign above (＃) is unicode, that is why it is allowed as part of a variable name, whereas normal # sign is not.

P.S. to access emojis and other unicode symbols directly in the current edit field press ^⌘+\<space> on Mac.

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