Can we use Swift’s reserved keywords as variable or constant names?

Sources & Resources

Main Source: 🔗 Ace the iOS Interview

Additional Sources:

• 🔗 Swift Reserved Keywords | Swift By Deya

Further Reading:

• 🔗 Swift Lexical Structure | Swift.org

TL/DR

Yes and it’s accomplished through the use of backticks.

If you want to use a reserved keyword, for example as a case in an enum, you can just add backticks around the reserved keyword:

enum MembershipType {
    case `default`
    case premium
    case trial
}

// Free to use MembershipType.default now

Otherwise, without the backticks, we’d have a compilation issue.