[swift-dev] [stdlib] Array.description calls debugDescription on its contents

[Dave Abrahams]

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> On Dec 12, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> It would similarly be nice if String.init(_: Any) were instead String.init(_: CustomStringConvertible), and passing something to it that wasn’t convertible was an error.

Why would that be nice?  It is an explicit goal that every type can be represented as a string, whatever its conformance a, FWIW