<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 9, 2017, at 7:48 AM, Shawn Erickson 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=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I also wonder what folks are actually doing that require indexing into strings. I would love to see some real world examples of what and why indexing into a string is needed. Who is the end consumer of that string, etc.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Do folks have so examples?</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Big +1 for this. Real world use cases that are hard today would be great to see so we can make sure they are accounted for in the new API design.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The ideal situation is that there is a common pattern with many of them that can be accommodated through useful higher-level methods (maybe even on Collection) that avoid the need to mess around with indices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>