<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Because this is a REPL change not a language change I recommend you report this as an enhancement request in a radar.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Robert Widmann<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 8, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Roope Kangas 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 dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">I am new to Swift and just started learning but...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When exploring standard library and the language it self from the REPL.</div><div class="">Users currently need to switch between a browser to read documentation and the </div><div class="">REPL it self.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I would like to see in the REPL is behaviour like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> 1> :help print</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>print(_:separator:terminator:)</div><div class=""> <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Writes the textual representations of the given items into the standard output.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This means some kind of nice textual version of what I find here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print" class="">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see that in the source code this information is available </div><div class="">(<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And that in the playgrounds I can get this quick help. Would be really nice</div><div class="">to access this from the REPL too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">KR,</div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br class="">Roope Kangas<br class=""><a href="http://fi.linkedin.com/in/roopekangas" target="_blank" class="">http://fi.linkedin.com/in/roopekangas</a></div></div>
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