* [stdlib] String : RangeReplaceableCollection & BidirectionalCollection
* Add source compatibility hack for Swift.max
* Add source compatibility hack for Swift.min
* Remove redundant conformance in benchmarks
* Fix stupid typo I thought I'd already pushed
* XFAIL testing now-redundant conformance
* XFAIL an IDE test for now
In various cases where we had global operators for non-generic
concrete types (such as String + String), move those operators into
the type. This should not affect the sources, but makes the exposition
of the library cleaner.
Plus, it's a good test for the compiler, which uncovered a few issues
where the compiler was coupled with the library.
This documentation revision covers a large number of types & protocols:
String, its views and their indices, the Unicode codec types and protocol,
as well as Character, UnicodeScalar, and StaticString, among others.
This also includes a few small changes across the standard library for
consistency.
The RangeProtocol was a very weak and fragile abstraction because it
didn't specify the interpretation of the endpoints. To write a
non-trivial algorithm, one usually needed to consult that information.
The standard library code only actually worked correctly with half-open
and closed ranges (and didn't handle fully open ranges, for example).
The other two protocols, HalfOpenRangeProtocol and ClosedRangeProtocol,
were only used for code sharing, and present an ABI burden. We can use
gyb instead.
