> On 7 Jul 2016, at 06:50, Tim Vermeulen via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a follow up from this swift-users thread: > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-users/Week-of-Mon-20160704/002489.html > > As it stands, RangeReplaceableCollection requires an implementation for > init(), which is used in the default implementations of (as far as I can > tell) init(_:), init(repeating:count:) and removeAll(keepingCapacity:). The > latter of these methods should be implementable with removeSubrange(_:) > instead. > > I would like to propose to *remove* all three initialisers from this > protocol, because it makes it impossible for some collections to conform to > it that need extra data for its initialisation, but are otherwise perfectly > capable of having arbitrary subranges replaced by elements from another > collection. Those three initialisers could either move to a new protocol or > simply not be part of any protocol.
+1 from me, if the ability to Self() initialise isn't absolutely required then these should be removed. _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
