<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Plus if you want to play with Swift 4 without running a toolchain or the new Xcode you can do it in your browser:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://swift.sandbox.bluemix.net/#/repl">https://swift.sandbox.bluemix.net/#/repl</a></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div> Just change that repl to Swift 4.<div><br> <div id="bloop_sign_1498871076434747904" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">Am 1. Juli 2017 um 03:02:38, Adrian Zubarev (<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>) schrieb:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div>
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The best docs you can get without Xcode I know about is this one
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<a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/string</a></div>
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In Swift 4 a String will yet again become a collection type.</div>
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<p class="airmail_on">Am 1. Juli 2017 um 02:57:05, David Baraff
(<a href="mailto:davidbaraff@gmail.com">davidbaraff@gmail.com</a>)
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<div><span>I only know a little bit of what I’ve read online in
blog posts and such. I don’t have access to the Swift 4 API
documentation, since i’m not running the xcode beta yet.</span>
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<div class=""><span>Is there someplace I can see the actual new
API’s for String, in swift 4? i googled but haven’t found it
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<div class=""><span>On Jun 30, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Adrian Zubarev
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therefore I provided a solution using Swift 4. It’s returning a
view called `Substring`.</span></div>
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<span>Am 1. Juli 2017 um 00:38:42, David Baraff (<a href="mailto:davidbaraff@gmail.com" class="">davidbaraff@gmail.com</a>)
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<div class=""><span><span class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">I’m sorry, but I don’t see suffix() as a member function
in any documentation, nor does it complete in
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Is this perhaps only in Swift 4?</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">If so, that’s a definite improvement!</font></span></div>
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From: Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" class="">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>></font></span></div>
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Subject: Re: [swift-users] the pain of strings</font></span></div>
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Date: June 30, 2017 at 3:13:42 PM PDT</font></span></div>
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<p class="">This looks way better than the subscript in Python and
1000 times better than your example. It might be a good idea to
look up possible API first before writing such ugly long lines. I
mean they get the job done, but just why so complicated? :(</p>
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<p class="airmail_on">Am 1. Juli 2017 um 00:08:47, Adrian Zubarev
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<pre class=""><span class=""><code class="">let longString = "1234567890"
print(longString.suffix(2)) // prints "90"
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<p class="airmail_on"><span class="">Am 30. Juni 2017 um 23:45:01,
David Baraff via swift-users (<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>)
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about about this. I sympathize. Unicode, it’s all very
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Python:<br class="">
shortID = longerDeviceID[-2:] # give me the last two
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let shortID =
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I can’t even read the above without my eyes glazing over. As has
been pointed out, an API which demands this much verbosity is
crippling for many developers, to say the least.<br class="">
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With Swift 4, am I correct that it will be at least:<br class="">
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let shortID = String(longerDeviceID.dropFirst(longerDeviceID.count
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