<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Earlier in this thread, I pasted in a draft I discussed on-list (from July 10) about extending literals to include other "universal" typeless concepts including fonts, dates, points, etc but I should have spent a moment discussing why I had dropped that link. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class="">p.s. For those that missed it: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* earlier discussion: <a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160704/023966.html" class="">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160704/023966.html</a></div><div class="">* draft work: <a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/c92f6ab115af89d5c4b9161487df6a3c" class="">https://gist.github.com/erica/c92f6ab115af89d5c4b9161487df6a3c</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2016, at 3:52 PM, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" class="">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">That's a fair point. I suppose we could have, in the same way as file literals,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">```</div><div class="">#urlLiteral(resourceName: "<a href="http://example.com/" class="">http://example.com</a>")</div><div class="">```</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">which in an IDE would be automatically generated when someone drops a link and might be rendered as a hyperlink, blue underline and all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 16:17 Erica Sadun <<a href="mailto:erica@ericasadun.com" class="">erica@ericasadun.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I'd prefer to see a literal URL than a Foundation URL that is string-initializable. I don't see a URL literal as being in any way necessarily tightly coupled with a Foundation URL type. The point of a literal is that it is inherently typeless and checked at compile time. A color literal depending on context can be a UIColor or NSColor but that's not specified outside of the use context. The code is portable and cross platform.</div></div><div class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">-- E</div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">On Dec 17, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail_msg m_1578985084152999226Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail_msg">With respect to URL specifically, that it's a Foundation type may change the timeline as well. Various improvements to the Foundation API (and URL in particular) have been proposed here, but if I remember correctly, the stated goal was first to have a complete Swift version of Foundation, preserving the existing API as exactly as possible with no additions or subtractions, and only then to consider Swifty evolution of the APIs. I don't think the first step is complete yet.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 21:46 Step C via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Probably worth pointing out that this topic seems entirely additive. Which means it would be at least a phase 2 proposal, if not later.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class=""><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">> On Dec 17, 2016, at 4:44 PM, Micah Hainline via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">> Yes, everyone who has what they feel like is a solid workable solution should write it up for URL and we can compare and pick holes in them all until we get something really solid.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>> On Dec 17, 2016, at 3:27 PM, David Sweeris <<a href="mailto:davesweeris@mac.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">davesweeris@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>> Sent from my iPhone<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>> On Dec 17, 2016, at 13:20, David Sweeris <<a href="mailto:davesweeris@mac.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">davesweeris@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>> Sent from my iPhone<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>>> On Dec 17, 2016, at 13:12, Micah Hainline via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>>> I'd love a fleshed out elegant example for URL that shows what a complete implementation of that special init method would look like.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>>> I can't do it now, but I'll try post one before tomorrow that shows how I'd envision it working.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>><br class="gmail_msg"><br class=""><br class="">>> Oh, and to be clear, I'm not trying to "claim" this or anything... if anyone else has ideas, please post them! The more the merrier.<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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