[swift-users] What is up with names not being Strings any more in Swift 4?

[Greg Parker]

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Could / should these types be ExpressibleByStringLiteral?

They should not. We are deliberately discouraging the string literal of the name. The string literal should be in only one place: the definition of the name constant. Everything else should use the constant. The compiler can provide autocompletion and typo detection of the constant. The string literal doesn't get that. 


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Greg Parker     gparker at apple.com <mailto:gparker at apple.com>     Runtime Wrangler


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