Re: Xcode 7b5 Swift Strings
Re: Xcode 7b5 Swift Strings
- Subject: Re: Xcode 7b5 Swift Strings
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:10:36 -0700
> On Aug 13, 2015, at 13:08 , Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:56 , Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Now I have to write:
>>
>> let s2 = ((s as NSString).stringByExpandingTildeInPath as NSString).stringByAppendingPathComponent("foo")
>>
>> How is this better?
>
> What happened is that the methods in NSPathUtilities.h are no longer available to the String type. It’s unknown whether this was an oversight, or if there’s a philosophical reason for the change. I guess we’ll find out in the next beta.
>
> In the meantime, casting to NSString is a slight inconvenience, or you can use NSURL (though Charles Strska has pointed out that you need to be careful when appending a path extension to a NSURL).
I guess what I was getting at was, perhaps it makes more sense for the NSString extension methods to return NSString, rather than String.
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Rick Mann
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