Reputation: 2317
It seems to me that any valid number can also be expressed as a String
, so I don't know why this function returns a String?
instead of a String
.
Upvotes: 10
Views: 962
Reputation: 917
My best guess would be because of the legacy support. This is from the official documentation:
The behavior of an NSNumberFormatter object can conform either to the range of behaviors existing prior to OS X v10.4 or to the range of behavior since that release. NSNumberFormatter Class Reference
Upvotes: 5