> On Jan 31, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I totally sympathize with users being confused. It's an interesting idea to > move it to Array only. > > The thing is, it does make sense (and wouldn't be confusing) to enumerate a > dictionary or set. Moreover, the behavior is _exactly_ what it says on the > tin: when you enumerate something in real life, there is no sense in which > the number is related to some sort of index. Can we fix this by > documentation? Like, a big blaring "don't use this when you want the index”?
+1. A similar method on collection that provides indices might be useful but that doesn’t mean we should remove `enumerated`. User confusion should be addressed by documentation. > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:35 Ole Begemann via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 31/01/2017 16:19, Ole Begemann via swift-evolution wrote: > > Here are three previous discussion about this topic: > > > > 1) December 2015: [Idea] Add an (Index, Element) sequence to > > CollectionType > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151221/004561.html > > > > <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151221/004561.html> > > and > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151228/004626.html > > > > <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151228/004626.html> > > > > > > 2) April 2016: [Idea] Replace enumerate() with something more explicit > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160411/015074.html > > > > <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160411/015074.html> > > > > > > 3) September 2016: [Proposal draft] Introducing `indexed()` collections > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160926/027355.html > > > > <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160926/027355.html> > > To clarify, the discussions I linked to don't all propose to remove or > replace `enumerated()`, but they all talk about the potential confusion > about what `enumerated()` does and does not do. > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution> > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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