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Re:Why Is Swift's String API So Hard? by Retra on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:35AM (#10520316)
Ideally, you'd provide interfaces for both interpretations.
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Re:Why Is Swift's String API So Hard? by kazinator on Friday November 06, 2015 @12:12PM (#10520521)
Two interpretations across N features: (expt 2 N) interface combinations. :)
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Re:Why Is Swift's String API So Hard? by Retra on Friday November 06, 2015 @12:30PM (#10520630)
That's really only a problem if you're building interfaces that can't be composed.
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