Re: [swift-users] Clarification on the role of `CustomStringConvertible`

Thanks for the pointers! I agree with the motivation in the proposal, unfortunately this doesn't really help address the question of how to understand the current protocol though, unless I am mistaken? - Daniel > On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote: >

Re: [swift-users] Clarification on the role of `CustomStringConvertible`

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Erica Sadun wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-users > wrote: >> >> I would like some clarification regarding the expected role of >> `CustomStringConvertible` for types which have a

[swift-users] Clarification on the role of `CustomStringConvertible`

I would like some clarification regarding the expected role of `CustomStringConvertible` for types which have a natural, lossless, string representation. I don't have good terminology to use here, but is the expectation that the "textual string representation" is a readable description of the