[swift-evolution] URL Literals

[Erica Sadun]

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> On Dec 16, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Micah Hainline via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Charles,
> 
> There's already something like that for file URLs in a playground,
> though I'm not sure about compile-time checking or how that might work
> outside of playgrounds.
> 
> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2016-March/000060.html
> 
> Of course, my proposal would work fine for file URLs, just not for
> turning file paths INTO URLs.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Charles Srstka
> <cocoadev at charlessoft.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 16, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Micah Hainline via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like to be able to create a URL literal that is compile-time
>>> checked for correct format. This would help avoid code like this:
>>> 
>>>   let url: URL = URL(string: "https://example.com")!
>>> 
>>> The cleanest way I can think of doing that would be to introduce a new
>>> macro structure similar to #selector, though I'm open to other ideas.
>>> I would think it should take a quoted literal string to avoid
>>> problems. That would look like this:
>>> 
>>>   let url: URL = #url("https://example.com")
>>> 
>>> What does everyone think of that idea?
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>> 
>> I’d like to see something like that for file path URLs. For something so commonly used, URL(fileURLWithPath:) is obnoxiously verbose.
>> 
>> Charles
>> 
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