[swift-evolution] Pitch: URL(fileURLWithPath:) to URL(filePath:)

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Fri Aug 5 23:04:53 CDT 2016


> On Aug 5, 2016, at 5:32 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> There are many, many of these and it would be great to find out how to request them. I suspect the window of opportunity has passed for code-breaking changes though.

Right.  We’ll have some limited ability to do source breaking changes in Swift 4, but we need to figure out how the mitigation strategy will work (in full detail) so we know exactly what sort of changes will work.

-Chris


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>> On Aug 5, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Late, I know, but since it’s a simple search-and-replace change, I wonder if the team might consider renaming URL(fileURLWithPath:), which is quite verbose, to URL(filePath:), which conveys the same information while being much less painful to type.
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>> Charles
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