> On Nov 27, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Guillaume Lessard via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Nov 27, 2017, at 18:34, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Swift community,
>>
>> The review of SE-0191 "Eliminate IndexDistance from Collection" begins now
>> and runs through December 3, 2017.
> [snip]
>> • What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>
> I approve heartily.
> I previously complained about this on the swift-users list, making mostly the
> same arguments against the idea of not using Int. The best argument against
> that I know is a file-mapping collection on a 32-bit platform; if this
> matters, IndexDistance could simply be Int64 instead of Int.
I’d like to point out that using Int64 would likely cause just as much
numericCast'ing around as IndexDistance, so I don’t think that’s a viable
alternative.
(Thanks for the review!)
- Doug
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