> On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As an OS X and iOS developer, it sometimes seems that I work with >> [GG|NS]Point, [GG|NS]Rect, and [GG|NS]Size almost as much as I use Float or >> String. I’d love to see Swift’s standard library include Rect, Point, and >> Size types, with bridging to make them “just work” with any UIKit or AppKit >> API that expects their NS or CG equivalents. Maybe also typealias Frame and >> Bounds to Rect while we’re at it. >> >> Thoughts? > > My main thought is that, although I use these types in my iOS and Mac apps > all the time, I think I've used a rectangle type in web development maybe > once (when I was generating images). Swift is currently used mainly for GUI > programming, but most of the domains it's expanding into are ones where it > doesn't need those types.
It’s a feature that would be useful in the areas where Swift is being used today. Whether a feature is important in other domains doesn’t make it any less useful in Swift’s current applications. -jcr _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
