I think any serious proposal with the removal of APIs would need to consider source compatibility and to do so you should likely audit the API surface area that is being offered (and replace it via the NSStringAPI.swift extension)
> On Oct 24, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Slava Pestov via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps you could write up a proposal to outline the missing functionality :-) > > Slava > >> On Oct 24, 2017, at 3:09 PM, Jonathan Hull <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I would feel better about it if String gained a lot of the utility of >> NSString (so that we don’t have to go to NSString all the time for methods) >> >> Thanks, >> Jon >> >>> On Oct 24, 2017, at 3:00 PM, Slava Pestov via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Members of NSString, except those defined in Foundation, are available on >>> values of type String. For example, >>> >>> extension NSString { >>> @objc func foo() {} >>> } >>> >>> let s: String = “hello” >>> >>> s.foo() >>> >>> We don’t do this for any other bridged types, for instance NSArray methods >>> are not imported as Array methods. It’s literally a special case in the >>> type checker for member lookup on String. >>> >>> This behavior doesn’t really much sense conceptually and it was put in as a >>> stop-gap in Swift 1 to beef up the String API. I would like to phase it out >>> as follows: >>> >>> - Unconditional warning in Swift 4.1, with a fixit to insert an ‘as >>> NSString’ cast >>> - Error in Swift 5 with -swift-version 5 >>> >>> What does everyone think about this? >>> >>> Slava >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
