And never mind me. Not sure how I missed that in the docs that many times.

-DW

> On Jun 24, 2016, at 1:38 PM, David Waite via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the new Collection index(_:offsetBy:) 
> <http://swiftdoc.org/v3.0/protocol/Collection/#comment-func-index_offsetby_> 
> does not define that negative offsets require a BidirectionalCollection. It 
> also declares that negative offsets must complete in O( | offset | ) time. 
> This differs from other methods such as distance(from:to:) 
> <http://swiftdoc.org/v3.0/protocol/Collection/#comment-func-distance-from_to_>which
>  indicates start <= end if not a BidirectionalCollection
> 
> This would preclude some data structures from strictly implementing the 
> Collection protocol, such as singly-linked lists.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to indicate instead that BidirectionalCollection 
> defines the negative offset behavior and negative offset performance 
> constraint?
> 
> -DW
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