Side question: it looks like ICU is used by the standard library on non-Apple platforms. Would it be possible to make it a dependency of the compiler too? If we want to explicitly detect emoji, for instance, it'd be nice to use a canonical library that already does it.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <[email protected]> wrote: > *TLÍžDR:* > > Swift 4 Stage 1 seeks to prioritize "Source stability features". Most > source-breaking changes were done with in Swift 3; however, the > categorization of Unicode characters into identifiers & operators was never > thoroughly discussed on swift-evolution. This seems like it might be our > last chance, and I think there are some big improvements to be had. > > I've gathered some information+thoughts into an early-stage pitch / > pre-proposal. It doesn't really have a conclusion, so I'm hoping we can > discuss these issues and come up with good (pragmatic) solutions here. I > imagine this can morph into a proposal later. > > You can read the following in nicer HTML form at https://gist.github.com/ > jtbandes/c0b0c072181dcd22c3147802025d0b59 > > I look forward to the discussion! > > -Jacob > <snip> >
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