> On Jul 21, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Michael Gottesman via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > This is a proposal to move AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer from StdlibCore > to the Objective C overlay. The reason to do this is that ideally StdlibCore > would not have any code specific to ObjC in it. This is a small step that we > can take in this direction by moving the public API of > AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer to the ObjC overlay. The way that this > would be done is that the implementation for > AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer would remain in StdlibCore, but we would > add an underscore to make that API private to the standard library. Then > inside the ObjC overlay, we would create a typealias to the internal API with > the non-underscored name (i.e. make the typealias the public API). Then at a > later point in time we can move the implementation. The reason why I am not > proposing to move the implementation today is that there are dependencies in > Array/Hashed Collections on AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer. Moving that > code is a larger project that is preconditioned on this proposal going in > first as an incremental step. > > Thoughts, flames, etc?
Sounds awesome. Someone will need to ping Bret Victor to update his T-shirt: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/558533126444445697 -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
