Swiftweekly.github.io: [67] Issue #67 - April 27, 2017

[BasThomas]

[jessesquires]

@BasThomas thanks so much for doing all the GH issue maintenance! 🙌

[BasThomas]

You're welcome. 😃

[BasThomas]

SE-0165 accepted

[BasThomas]

SE-0155 accepted

[gregheo]

Couple of interesting pre-proposal pitches from Apple folks on the mailing lists:

"Should we just always import C/ObjC types under their Swift 4 names, and use typealiases in Swift 3 mode?" — dealing with renamed types when mixing and matching Swift 3/4 code.
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20170417/004408.html

Replacing the swap function with something that follows the ownership manifesto when dealing with mutable collections.
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170417/035986.html

[jessesquires]

swift server group notes:
https://github.com/swift-server/work-group/pull/80

[jessesquires]

Code size reduction:
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/8909

[jessesquires]

SE-0168 implementation
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/8813

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/856367181898039296

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/856369805648998400

[jessesquires]

Swift unwrapped 😊

https://spec.fm/podcasts/swift-unwrapped/66634

[gregheo]

Source compatibility is a strong goal for future Swift releases. To aid in this goal, a community owned source compatibility test suite serves to regression test changes to the compiler against a (gradually increasing) corpus of Swift source code. Projects added to this test suite are periodically built against the latest development versions of Swift as part of Swift's continuous integration system, allowing Swift compiler developers to understand the compatibility impact their changes have on real-world Swift projects.

announcement: https://swift.org/blog/swift-source-compatibility-test-suite/

repo: https://github.com/apple/swift-source-compat-suite

tweet: https://twitter.com/tkremenek/status/856629269828575232

[BasThomas]

SE-0172 accepted, SE-0171 accepted, SE-0173 in review

[jessesquires]

call for assistance:
https://twitter.com/ericasadun/status/856942755162996737

bad swift things:
http://ericasadun.com/2017/04/25/bad-swift-things-we-do-because-we-can/

[gregheo]

"Multi-line string literals are in!"
https://twitter.com/Ilseman/status/857042195961978880

And a starter task: SR-4701 Starter: better diagnostics for multi-line string literals
https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4701

[gregheo]

SE-0167 accepted
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2017-April/000368.html
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0167-swift-encoders.md

[jessesquires]

proposal to change SPM pinning:

https://twitter.com/rballard/status/857392666660683777
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170424/036203.html

[BasThomas]

https://twitter.com/slava_pestov/status/857457182803021824