[swift-evolution] [Review #2] SE-0089: Renaming String.init<T>(_: T)

[David Sweeris]

Good point

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> On Jun 5, 2016, at 00:16, Patrick Smith <pgwsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The issue I think is that it would open up serialisation for all sorts of formats, which is a much larger problem in itself, whereas this can just focus on a user-defined ‘lossless’ string.
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> Patrick
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>> On 5 Jun 2016, at 1:25 PM, David Sweeris via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 4, 2016, at 15:46, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> - The "lossless" protocol will be a welcome addition for serialization/deserialization code, and it makes the replacement init(_:) API very clear in its behavior.
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>> Speaking of which, would "Serializable" be a better name for the protocol? I don't recall whether anyone's already asked.
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>> - Dave Sweeris
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