On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi swift-evolution,
>>
>> Dave, Max and I have compiled a list of open issues in the standard
>> library for which the resolutions could result non-additive API
>> changes.  Having a resolution (and an implementation of the
>> resolution!) for these issues is blocking API stability.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/gribozavr/37e811f12b27c6365fc88e6f9645634d
>
> Thank you for collecting this Dmitri!  For the issues in the “low hanging 
> fruit” list, are the changes all sufficiently "obvious”?  If so, having one 
> proposal tackle all of them in one sweep would be preferable to reduce 
> process overhead.

My subjective assessment:

> The global function withUnsafe[Mutable]Pointer(&x) should have an argument 
> label “to”.
Obvious.

> UnicodeScalar.init(Int) should be failable.
Obvious.

> withUnsafePointer shouldn't take its argument as inout.
Jordan has objections, see https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1956

> Remove unsafeAddressOf. We are not aware of any real usecases for it. If 
> there are any, it should be renamed to unsafeAddress(of:) to follow the 
> guidelines.
Obvious, unless someone comes up with use cases during the review period.

> Consider renaming or eliminating ManagedProtoBuffer.
> The reason why ManagedProtoBuffer exists is to give the users an extra bit of 
> type safety inside of the closure passed to ManagedBuffer.create().
Debatable.

> String.CharacterView.Iterator should be a custom type rather than the 
> default, to allow performance optimizations. Audit all other collections for 
> such opportunities.
Obvious.

> String(count:, repeatedValue:) and String.append() are ambiguous without an 
> explicit cast to Character.
Obvious.

> Rename the ~LiteralConvertible protocols according to the resolution of the 
> proposal currently under review.
A separate review.

Dmitri

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