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nemke
nemke

Reputation: 2458

Println and String Concatention issue

I have a strange behavior within swift playground.

When I enter this lines of code

println("test 1" + "test 2" + "test 3" + "test 4") //compiles
println("test 1" + "test 2" + "test 3" + "test 4" + "test 5") //compiles
println("test 1" + "test 2" + "test 3" + "test 4" + "test 5" + "test 6") //error!

The last line of code does not compile. The error is:

Expression was too complex to be solved in reasonable time; consider breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions

Am I doing something wrong, or is this some kind of a bug? It seems like the limit for println() is 5 string concatenations?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 142

Answers (1)

rob mayoff
rob mayoff

Reputation: 385580

You're not doing anything wrong. Apple is.

The println function is the problem, not string concatenation. This gives me the same error:

println(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6)

You can work around it by declaring your own wrapper:

func myprint<T>(x: T) {
    println(x)
}

myprint(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6)
myprint("1" + "2" + "3" + "4" + "5" + "6")
myprint("1" + "2" + "3" + "4" + "5" + "6" + "1" + "2" + "3" + "4" + "5" + "6")

Output:

21
123456
123456123456

Upvotes: 2

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