> On Oct 13, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Rick Mann via swift-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It seems I can write this:
>
> extension String
> {
> public func deleting(prefix inPrefix: String) -> String
> public func deleting(prefix inPrefix: String) -> String?
> }
>
> But I was hoping it would do the right thing:
>
> let a = s.deleting(prefix: "foo")
> if let b = s.deleting(prefix: "foo") { }
>
> But it finds these ambiguous, and I'm not sure how to specify which I want.
You can specify which you want by explicitly naming the type:
let a = s.deleting(prefix: "foo") as String
or
let a : String = s.deleting(prefix: "foo")
…but presumably that doesn't give you the usability that you were hoping for.
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Greg Parker [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Runtime
Wrangler
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