> On Dec 16, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 16, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Micah Hainline via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I would like to be able to create a URL literal that is compile-time >> checked for correct format. This would help avoid code like this: >> >> let url: URL = URL(string: "https://example.com";)! >> >> The cleanest way I can think of doing that would be to introduce a new >> macro structure similar to #selector, though I'm open to other ideas. >> I would think it should take a quoted literal string to avoid >> problems. That would look like this: >> >> let url: URL = #url("https://example.com";) >> >> What does everyone think of that idea? >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > I’d like to see something like that for file path URLs. For something so > commonly used, URL(fileURLWithPath:) is obnoxiously verbose. > > Charles
Yes, but it's not a nullable initializer. With URL(string:) the incredible pain is that even compile-time URLs to your own website are nullable URL? and you need to force-unwrap them. > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
