Re: [swift-evolution] #if os(Windows) and MSVC/Cygwin Compatibility

Dear Joe, Chris, Swift Community, Here is my quick fire view. What about adding a builtin directive called environ(...) for holding OS-specific environmental differences. So in the case of Windows, we would potentially have environ(msvc), environ(cygwin), environ(mingw), environ(nano) etc. Thus,

Re: [swift-evolution] #if os(Windows) and MSVC/Cygwin Compatibility

Why is there a need to support Cygwin/MingW and their variants as a build target for Windows? MSVC is practically free these days. Doesn't supporting multiple different ABI targets on Windows just complicate matters unnecessarily? Isn't MSVC enough as a build target? I am not dejecting; rather,

Re: [swift-evolution] [pitch] Eliminate the "T1 -> T2" syntax, require "(T1) -> T2"

Chris, The proposed syntax looks and reads so much better! +1. On 15 April 2016 at 05:57, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution wrote: > We currently accept function type syntax without parentheses, like: > > Int -> Float > String -> () > > etc. The original

Re: [swift-evolution] Crypto routines as part of the core library

Travis / Michael, +1 on built-in support for Crypto libraries in swift-corelibs. On 14 April 2016 at 22:52, Michael Ilseman via swift-evolution wrote: > Great! I will watch that thread as it’s something I’m also interested in > knowing more about. Thanks for

Re: [swift-evolution] [Idea] Allow more operators as custom operators

How about "<-"? I could see a few shorthands with that for Strings, etc. :-) On 10 April 2016 at 22:03, Jean-Daniel Dupas via swift-evolution wrote: > > Le 10 avr. 2016 à 15:01, Антон Жилин via swift-evolution > a écrit : > > & (as a prefix

Re: [swift-evolution] Ability to pack, order and align certain types of Structs (like in C)

Chris, Thanks. The distraction factor makes sense. I will update SR-1134 as discussed and mark it as post Swift v3. On 9 April 2016 at 14:13, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2016, at 8:02 AM, hitstergtd+swiftevo--- via swift-evolution > <swift-evolutio

Re: [swift-evolution] Ability to pack, order and align certain types of Structs (like in C)

ully the above would ensure that it isn't forgotten. :) > On 8 April 2016 at 07:01, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 12:28 PM, hitstergtd+swiftevo--- via swift-evolution >>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >>> &

[swift-evolution] Ability to pack, order and align certain types of Structs (like in C)

To the community: Neither am I a compiler/language design expert nor have I previously written a proposal to that effect, so I apologise if I have trivialised the matter especially with regard to other parts of Swift or if some of it already exists. I am also aware that what I've proposed herein