[swift-corelibs-dev] Bring NSString functions to String

[Eric Blachère]

Thanks for the answer ! It seems a bit weird from them to advocate using
NSString methods in the unavailability comment. I would rather use URL when
I can even if the conversions are a bit tedious ^^

Thanks a lot,
Eric

2017-05-10 10:52 GMT+02:00 Brent Royal-Gordon <brent at architechies.com>:

> > On May 8, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Eric Blachère via swift-corelibs-dev <
> swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> > I was just wondering if there are plans to bring NSString functions
> manipulating paths into the native String class. (such as
> lastPathComponent, pathComponents etc...)
> > Because even if we can always make an extension of String to easily cast
> it into NSString, it's still a bit of a shame to have to do it ;)
>
> Unfortunately, it seems like the decision not to include these methods on
> String was quite deliberate.
>
> Here's the revision where that happened: <https://github.com/apple/
> swift/commit/1f2390f1c75be65f57f189247bfe4f9b2fc11e3b#diff-
> d38f60064c3752f096c043e756d8f201R925> As you can see, they had that
> working and chose to disable it, presumably because they want you to
> manipulate paths through `URL`. (I wish the radar referenced in the commit
> message were public, but alas, it's not.)
>
> --
> Brent Royal-Gordon
> Architechies
>
>
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