If you are anything like me, you were not very pleased with the print() and println() changes. While working on some other items, I realized that it's possible to shadow global functions with your own. This means that we can fix the print() and println() functions. Yay!

func print<T>(value: T, appendNewline: Bool = false) {
    Swift.print(value, appendNewline: false)
}

func print<T, TargetStream : OutputStreamType>(value: T, inout _ target: TargetStream, appendNewline: Bool = false) {
    Swift.print(value, &target, appendNewline: false)
}

func println<T>(value: T, appendNewline: Bool = true) {
    Swift.print(value, appendNewline: true)
}

func println<T, TargetStream : OutputStreamType>(value: T, inout _ target: TargetStream, appendNewline: Bool = true) {
    Swift.print(value, &target, appendNewline: true)
}

Agh! Back to sanity (at least for me).

P.S.

• I logged a bug about the behavior here: http://openradar.appspot.com/21577485.
• Full source for the above workaround can be found here: swift-fix.