Re: [swift-evolution] Fwd: [Pitch] Single-quotes for Character literals

2015-12-21 Thread Tino Heth via swift-evolution
> I suggest reinstating the C convention of using single-quotes for delimiting > Characters. I rarely use chars, but from a theoretical standpoint, I'm not so happy with the ambiguity as well… But one suggestion if you want to make a proposal: Char has a fixed length (well, at least that was the

[swift-evolution] Fwd: [Pitch] Single-quotes for Character literals

2015-12-21 Thread Andrew Duncan via swift-evolution
I am re-posting this with the [Pitch] header. I have had two responses, which I will include and to which I will respond. We have all watched the evolution of the String class, and the amazing jockeying required to accommodate Unicode combining characters and the like. At this point, the distin