Many changes in how we're presenting the NSString APIs on String, most
notably that we now traffic in String.Index and Range<String.Index>
rather than Int and NSRange. Also we present NSString initializers that
can fail only as factory functions, and factory functions that can't
fail only as init functions.
About 25% of the API changes here have been reviewd by the Foundation
guys, and testing is, as it has always been, admittedly spotty. Dmitri
is going to be writing some more comprehensive tests.
Swift SVN r18553
The old ones were:
- print/println
- printAny
- printf
- Console
The new printing story is just print/println. Every object can be printed.
You can customize the way it is printed by adopting Printable protocol. Full
details in comments inside stdlib/core/OutputStream.swift.
Printing is not completely finished yet. We still have ReplPrintable, which
should be removed, string interpolation still uses String constructors, and
printing objects that don't conform to Printable will result in printing
mangled names.
Swift SVN r18001
Because we're using a "brute-force" combination of conversion to
NSString and forwarding, this code will continue to work when String
is replaced by NewString. It may not be fast yet, but at least it
will flesh out the experience for Cocoa programmers
Swift SVN r11034
