Hi everyone,

Thanks for your feedback on this proposal. Based on that plus additional 
feedback from core team members and others who responded off-thread, we are 
making the following small adjustments:

* KeyedEncoderContainerProtocol, KeyedDecodingContainerProtocol, 
UnkeyedEncodingContainer, UnkeyedDecodingContainer, 
SingleValueEncodingContainer, SingleValueDecodingContainer will drop their 
Data-taking functions. Data will conform to Codable, so it just goes through 
the normal paths like other types.
* The above will allow those protocols, plus Encodable, Decodable, typealias 
Codable,  Encoder, Decoder, CodingKey, struct CodingUserInfoKey to be part of 
the standard library (not in Foundation), resolving the concern about reaching 
too far up the stack for the compiler.
* JSONEncoder/Decoder, PropertyListEncoder/Decoder remain in Foundation. These 
are concrete implementations of the above protocols, like the ones that will 
appear in many libraries, we hope.

We are not currently proposing using the integer protocols. The reasoning is 
that using them them confers a requirement upon all possible encoders and 
decoders to support arbitrary-width integers and floating point values. We’re 
not convinced this is feasible, but we will continue to evaluate.

If the core team accepts the modified proposal, we will get this merged as soon 
as possible with the goal of allowing all of you to try everything out via 
Swift’s frequent toolchain snapshots. We will be looking for feedback on how it 
works in more real world scenarios, and we will consider further adjustments to 
the API before Swift 4 is final. We are hoping that this extended trial period 
will allow us to make sure that everything works out the way we expected.

Thanks,
- Tony

> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Swift community,
> 
> The review of SE-0166 "Swift Archival & Serialization" begins now and runs 
> through April 12, 2017. The proposal is available here:
> 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md
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