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   Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:08:00 JST Marco Arment

   Modern Substrings in Swift
   A Story in Two Acts

   This should be easy!

   return s[0..<4]

   [X] 'subscript(_:)' is unavailable: cannot subscript String with an integer range, use a String.Index range instead.

   AAAHHHH DAMN IT HOW DO I DO THIS AGAIN (furiously Stack Overflows)

   - Act 2 -
   are you serious, is this really the solution

   return s[s.startIndex..<s.index(s.startIndex, offsetBy: 4)]

   [X] Cannot convert return expression of type 'Substring' to return type 'String'

   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:07:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ellen Shapiro

     @marcoarment @designatednerd
     When convenience, performance, and correctness are all mutually exclusive, there is no joy in Mudville.

     I blame text. Text was a mistake.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:22:06 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     • Ellen Shapiro

     @designatednerd @marcoarment

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     Ellen Shapiro (designatednerd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:22:07 JST Ellen Shapiro

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @marcoarment attempting to encode messy, broken human systems in ways that computers can understand and reliably reproduce was a mistake