[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0089: Renaming String.init<T>(_: T)

[Dave Abrahams]

on Tue May 17 2016, Chris Lattner <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

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I'm posting this on behalf of Dmitri Gribenko, and Max Moiseev, and
myself.

We would like to accept the proposal with one modification: rather than
add an argument label, we'd like to drop the String initializer
altogether, making `"\(expression)"` the standard way to get a string
representation of `expression`.

Thanks,

-- 
-Dave