[swift-evolution] URL Literals

[Micah Hainline]

I'm not sure I fully understand the value proposition of having all those different kinds of literals, but one piece of feedback I have on that is the previously established format for the # notation should be #camelCase rather than #dot.separated.

> On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
> 
> Take a peek at this: https://gist.github.com/erica/c92f6ab115af89d5c4b9161487df6a3c
> 
> --E
> 
>> 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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