> On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Philippe Hausler <phaus...@apple.com> wrote:
>
> See:
>
> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/d015466450b2675037c6f1ace8e17e73050ccfb9/Foundation/NSURL.swift#L561
>
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/d015466450b2675037c6f1ace8e17e73050ccfb9/Foundation/NSURL.swift#L561>
>
> This is far and few between of cases that it would be useful but there are a
> few APIs that we have not been able to express without being able to
> autorelease items. Most of which we have either forbidden in Linux or
> redesigned because they were sub-par swift experiences. However it seems
> reasonable to have a minimal shim to provide cross platform code
> compatibility even if it does next to nothing. That way trivial code as the
> original issue showed can easily be directly compiled on either platform
> without littering gnarly #ifdefs about.
In the fullness of time, the borrow model will hopefully give us a way to
represent those kinds of "returns inner pointer" APIs safely in Swift without
relying on dynamic lifetime extension, or awkward 'with { ... }' callbacks.
-Joe
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