True, but it's not at all about brevity, it's about type-safety and getting compile-time checking rather than runtime checking of the validity of the URL structure.
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 5:50 PM, Derrick Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > > let url = URL(string: "https://example.com";)! > > let url = #url("https://example.com";) > > Are not that different in length. It really isn't saving you much. > > I suppose you can try overloading an operator to get something to the effect > you want. >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:19 PM Micah Hainline via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Exactly! It's not an earth-shattering pain, but it would be nice to have >> clean type safety there. >> >> > On Dec 16, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Charlie Monroe <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > >> >>> 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
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