Because this is a REPL change not a language change I recommend you report this as an enhancement request in a radar.
~Robert Widmann > On Jun 8, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Roope Kangas via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > I am new to Swift and just started learning but... > > When exploring standard library and the language it self from the REPL. > Users currently need to switch between a browser to read documentation and > the > REPL it self. > > What I would like to see in the REPL is behaviour like this: > > 1> :help print > > print(_:separator:terminator:) > Writes the textual representations of the given items into the standard > output. > > ... > > This means some kind of nice textual version of what I find here: > https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print > <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/1541053-print> > > I see that in the source code this information is available > (https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13 > > <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L13>). > > And that in the playgrounds I can get this quick help. Would be really nice > to access this from the REPL too. > > > KR, > > -- > Roope Kangas > http://fi.linkedin.com/in/roopekangas > <http://fi.linkedin.com/in/roopekangas>_______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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