On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:14 PM, David Waite via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> If we are pulling in functions/structures not defined by the C standard > library or by POSIX, I’d be reluctant to support a standard name. It would > be troublesome if someone thought that they were cross-platform but turned > out to use strfry() heavily > > I certainly wonder what people specifically want to bring the C standard > library or POSIX libraries in for - is it compatibility with third party > libraries? Functionality missing in Foundation? > To throw one use case out there, it's used extensively in corelibs-foundation itself. > -DW > > > On Oct 5, 2016, at 4:57 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > >> On Sep 13, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Brian Gesiak via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > >> > >> I hadn't thought about a unified overlay for POSIX. I think the > simplified import alone has benefit to warrant its own evolution proposal. > Would it be possible to have a separate discussion for the POSIX overlay > idea? Or is there a reason that I'm missing that prevents the import from > being viable on its own? (Apologies in advance if there's an obvious answer > to this question!) > > > > I've heard the argument before that we should do a full overlay, but I > think this is becoming a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. > Having some sort of "just import whatever the system libc is called" module > would be a significant improvement in practice over the state of the art, > even if we don't do any other adaptation. > > > > Here's what I would suggest. We have a convention for exposing "raw" > imports of C libraries: you call them `C\(libraryName)`. So I would suggest > we introduce a `CLibc` module which provides a raw import of the system's > libc. If we later decide to do a full-featured overlay, that's great—we can > call it `Libc`. But `CLibc` by itself would be an improvement over the > status quo and a step in the right direction. > > > > -- > > Brent Royal-Gordon > > Architechies > > > > _______________________________________________ > > swift-evolution mailing list > > swift-evolution@swift.org > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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