[swift-evolution] Strings in Swift 4

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Jan 20 2017, Joe Groff <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Jordan points out that the generalized slicing syntax stomps on '...x'
> and 'x...', which would be somewhat obvious candidates for variadic
> splatting if that ever becomes a thing. Now, variadics are a much more
> esoteric feature and slicing is much more important to day-to-day
> programming, so this isn't the end of the world IMO, but it is
> something we'd be giving up.

Good point, Jordan.

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-Dave