[swift-evolution] Rename joinWithSeparator() to join() and make it work with all classes.

[Félix Cloutier]

I'm not against a join that works on any CustomStringConvertible but that's more or less the same thing as collection.map { String($0 }.joinWithSeparator("-"). If I had to guess, it wasn't done because people weren't sure that it'd be that useful.

Félix

> Le 25 déc. 2015 à 02:49:11, Sebastian Mecklenburg via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hello group,
> 
> This is my first post here so please tell me if I’m doing something wrong.
> 
> The function name joinWithSeparator() sounds like an ObjectiveCism to me. Why not just name it join()? I is a common function found in many libraries of other programming languages and it is always simply called join(). I don’t think there is much room for misunderstanding what the parameter does.
> 
> Also, why is it limited to String only SequenceTypes? An implementation like
> 
> extension SequenceType {
>    func join(separator: String) -> String {
>        let arr = self.map({String($0)})
>        return arr.joinWithSeparator(separator)
>    }
> }
> 
> would work fine with all classes that implement the CustomStringConvertible protocol and, for classes that don’t, the worst thing that would happen is that it would generate a string of repeating class names.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Sebastian Mecklenburg
> 
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