[swift-evolution] SE-163: String Revision: Collection Conformance, C Interop, Transcoding

[David Waite]

> On Apr 5, 2017, at 12:39 PM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, Swift community!
> 
> The review of "SE-163: String Revision: Collection Conformance, C Interop, Transcoding" begins now and runs through next Tuesday, April 11th. The proposal is available here:
> 	https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0163-string-revision-1.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0163-string-revision-1.md>
> 	• What is your evaluation of the proposal?
+1, looks great

> 	• Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?
> 	• Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
yes to both

> 	• If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?
I’ve yet to use a language with Swift’s unicode capabilities, but I might compare to Ruby 1.9+ strings, which support all encodings with one type. In comparison, I greatly prefer the “forcing” of the unicode and extended grapheme clusters mental model, rather than presenting a developer with sets of both array-of-characters and array-of-bytes semantics at once

> 	• How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?
Quick reading of proposal as well as reading of the String manifesto before.

-DW
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