on Wed Jun 14 2017, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Dave Abrahams <dabrah...@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> on Wed Jun 14 2017, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu-AT-gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > However, if this desire to remove failable APIs remains strong then I >> > wonder if the undiscussed second option above is worth at least some >> > consideration. >> >> I think you're misunderstanding the motivation here. It's not so much >> that I want to remove failable APIs as that I want to reduce overall API >> surface area. The current index conversion APIs contribute 16 >> initializers and 16 methods to the overall size of the library. >> > > Ah, and presumably, having only failable APIs once these different index > types are collapsed into one would be too cumbersome.
Well, yeah, and impossible. Collection conformance requires that subscript return a non-optional Element. -- -Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
