<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=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 17, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Could / should these types be ExpressibleByStringLiteral?</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>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. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>-- </div><div>Greg Parker <a href="mailto:gparker@apple.com" class="">gparker@apple.com</a> Runtime Wrangler</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>