<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 Dec 19, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">```swift</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(186, 45, 162);" class="">let</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> x = #imageLiteral(resourceName:"nothere.jpg")</span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">print(x)</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">```</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">This compiles. It crashes at runtime. I don't see why URLs should be any different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— E</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>They shouldn’t be. The print function can already handle things that aren’t `CustomStringConvertible`:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(112, 61, 170);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">struct</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Foo {}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">let</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> x = </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">Foo</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">()</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">Foo</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">self</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">is</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">CustomStringConvertible</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #008400" class="">//says `false`</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 132, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #3d1d81" class="">print</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">x</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">) </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">//says `"Foo()\n"`</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div>so, IMHO, that’s a bug.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- Dave Sweeris</div></body></html>