[swift-evolution] Strings in Swift 4

[Ben Cohen]

> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:42 PM, Jose Cheyo Jimenez <cheyo at masters3d.com> wrote:
> 
> I just have one concern about the slice of a string being called Substring. Why not StringSlice? The word substring can mean so many things, specially in cocoa. 

This idea has a lot of merit, as does the option of not giving them a top-level name at all e.g. they could be String.Slice or String.SubSequence. It would underscore that they really aren’t meant to be used except as the result of a slicing operation or to efficiently pass a slice. OTOH, Substring is a term of art so can help with clarity.


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