on Sat Jul 30 2016, Jacob Bandes-Storch <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> In the past, there has been some interest in refining the behavior of > ExpressibleByStringInterpolation (née StringInterpolationConvertible), for > example: > > - Ability to *restrict the types that can be used* as interpolation segments > - Ability to *distinguish the string-literal segments* from interpolation > segments whose type is String Hi Jacob, I see you've already filed a Jira for the second bullet. Can you file one for the first one? We're going to redesign ExpressibleByStringInterpolation for Swift 4 and solve these problems. Thanks, > Some prior discussions: > - "StringInterpolationConvertible and StringLiteralConvertible inheritance" > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160516/017654.html > - Sub-discussion in "Allow multiple conformances to the same protocol" > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160606/020746.html > - "StringInterpolationConvertible: can't distinguish between literal > components and String arguments" https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1260 > / rdar://problem/19800456&18681780 > - "Proposal: Deprecate optionals in string interpolation" > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160516/018000.html > > About Swift 4, Chris wrote: > >> - *String re-evaluation:* String is one of the most important >> fundamental types in the language. The standard library leads have >> numerous ideas of how to improve the programming model for it, without >> jeopardizing the goals of providing a unicode-correct-by-default model. >> Our goal is to be better at string processing than Perl! > > I'd be interested in any more detail the team can provide on this. I'd like > to talk about string interpolation improvements, but it wouldn't be wise to > do so without keeping an eye towards possible regex/pattern-binding syntax, > and the String refinements that the stdlib team has in mind, if there's a > chance they would affect interpolation. > > Discuss! > > -Jacob > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > -- -Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution