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

[Austin Zheng]

Excellent. Having one canonical, unambiguous way to get the string
representation should make things simpler and easier for developers.

Austin

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Tue May 17 2016, Chris Lattner <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello Swift community,
> >
> > The review of "SE-0089: Renaming String.init<T>(_: T)" begins now and
> > runs through May 23. The proposal is available here:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0089-rename-string-reflection-init.md
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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
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