<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Jul 2016, at 21:23, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I think I'm generally in favour (see later).</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It's pretty minor but disproportionately annoying, so worth addressing.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This I'm not sure on, partly because no alternatives are given. In particular I'm wondering whether this could be addressed instead by adding a string literal version of the initialiser, as this should I think giving the compiler an exact match to select instead?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It's tough to weigh in on which is better though, as I don't use this much at all; I do however have a couple of uses of the Character initialiser that I'd be very slightly inconvenienced by if they were removed, but hardly upset about. I just wanted to float that I believe this may be an alternative that hasn't been considered:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>public init(repeating repeatedValue:StringLiteralType, count:Int) { … }</font></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>public mutating func append(_ other:StringLiteralType) { … }</font></div><div><font face="Monaco" class=""><br class=""></font></div>But both alternatives are sufficiently Swift-y, and I'm not too bothered either way so long as the ambiguity is addressed.</div></body></html>