on Thu Dec 15 2016, Alexis <swift-dev-AT-swift.org> wrote: > Triaging old radars, I came across rdar://27268632 <rdar://27268632> > from Dmitri. The gist of it is that he was proposing grouping up all > the random global functions that are implicitly called by the compiler > under a “namespace” by making them static methods of an enum called > _Intrinsic. (This name is kind’ve confusing, because it seems to be > the opposite of the traditional notion of an intrinsic. _RuntimeHook?) > > Since this affects how the compiler interfaces with the standard > library, I figured I should check with everyone what they think about > doing this. This is an ABI stability issue, because future compilers > will emit these symbols. > > I don’t really have a strong opinion on the matter. Avoiding global > pollution and clarifying interfaces seems nice?
SGTM, though hardly urgent. -- -Dave _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
