[swift-evolution] [Late Pitch] Deprecations, Moves, and Renames

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Aug 12 2016, Ben Rimmington <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> On 9 Aug 2016, at 20:09, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>> Deprecate the ExpressibleByStringInterpolation protocol with a
>> message indicating that its design is expected to change.  We know
>> this protocol to be mis-designed
>> (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1260) and limited
>> (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2303), but there's no time to fix it
>> for Swift 3.  If we knew what the new design should look like, we
>> might be able to calculate that the current API is supportable in a
>> forward-compatible way (as we do for Comparable).  Unfortunately, we
>> do not.
>
> Can the deprecation of ExpressibleByStringInterpolation be reverted next year,
> if a backwards-compatible design is proposed for Swift 4.0?

Yes, that's the plan, even if a backwards-compatible design isn't
proposed.  The reason to deprecate it now is that we're not sure a
backwards-compatible design will be possible.

-- 
-Dave