[swift-evolution] URL Literals

Xiaodi Wu xiaodi.wu at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 01:31:58 CST 2016


We're nowhere close to bikeshedding the name yet; people are calling it
constexpr to mean that the idea is something along the lines of C++'s
constexpr, as opposed to C++'s const. Mentally substitute whatever word you
want at the moment.


On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:15 Georgios Moschovitis <
george.moschovitis at icloud.com> wrote:

> > As a bonus (IMHO, anyway) adding `@constexpr` would lay the groundwork
> for adding `@pure` later on, both in
>
> Could that be just `@const` (since that keyword is not reserved yet)? Or
> something else?
>
> It bugs be that the `constexpr` keyword is hard to pronounce (and lacks a
> separator between the two constituent words). Even just `const`.
>
> -g.
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