> On May 8, 2016, at 2:10 PM, David Hart via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Swift-Evolution,
>
> I spent some time coding on Linux with Swift 3 (latest developement snapshot)
> and corelibs-foundation and I’ve hit one major hurdle: passing and converting
> NSRange and Range around between the different stdlib and Foundation APIs -
> specifically in regards to String.
>
> Is there a plan to simplify those pain points by converting all
> corelibs-foundation APIs to accept/return Range on String instead of NSRange?
> In that case, can’t we get rid of NSRange completely?
One idea that had come up before was to bridge NSRange to Range<Int>, although
it wouldn’t completely eliminate NSRange because the two types are not
representationally identical.
- Doug
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