Sigh. The Swift team give an impeccable impression of a group of people who’ve never actually tried to use Swift. An incredibly basic compiler task is to provide code a way to distinguish between debug & release builds, in order that it can behave accordingly (e.g. change the default logging verbosity, change asserts from fatal to… Read more
This was a pleasant surprise: I’m not sure how useful it is, since I don’t typically turn to a search engine to run random Swift code, but hey, kudos for effort.
Input code: Push button. Expect results (or at least bacon). Get: Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected expression in list of expressions .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Believe it or… Read more
Foo.swift:75:49: error: expression was too complex to be solved in reasonable time; consider breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions let componentsOfPotentialInterest = [(Calendar.Component, ((Int) -> String))]( ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The fuck?
Thanks to one of the genuine upsides of Swift, full Unicode support in the compiler itself, you can do: Finally you can express yourself honestly within your program: Or, if you prefer to be polite & British about it: You can go further, if you like, and have all manner of interesting things thrown about… Read more
You can readily tell that Swift was created by a C++ fanatic, by its fucking obtuse error messages. ⤹ Me Swift compiler ⤵︎ In today’s episode of “what the fuck do you want, compiler?”, we tackle: foo.swift:186:39: error: ambiguous reference to member ‘joined()’ log.debug(“\(thingies.joined(separator: “, “))”) ^~~~~~~~ Swift.BidirectionalCollection:27:17: note: found this… Read more
Result? Explode: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 “The folder “sigh.txt” doesn’t exist.” UserInfo={NSFilePath=~/Desktop/sigh.txt, NSUserStringVariant=Folder, NSUnderlyingError=0x1018110b0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 “No such file or directory”}} And since there’s no documentation on that write() method, and this is obviously a perfectly reasonable request that can’t sanely yield that bizarre error message, you could be forgiven for having no idea how… Read more