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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu May 19 2016, Jacob Bandes-Storch <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Hm. That might conflict with:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/17575

That doesn't bother me, personally.  

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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-Dave