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Difference between NSRange and NSMakeRange

Is there any difference between: 

NSRange(location: 0, length: 5)

and:

NSMakeRange(0, 5)

Because Swiftlint throws a warning when I use NSMakeRange, but I don't know why.

Thanks for the Help :-)

Solution

  • The only difference between them is that

    NSRange(location: 0, length: 5)

    is an initializer for NSRange while 

    NSMakeRange(0, 5)

    is a function which creates a new NSRange instance (by using the same initializer inside most likely) and actually is redundant in Swift. Swift has simply inherited it from Objective-C. I would stick to the former