If you think Date and Data look similar at a glance, wouldn’t NSDate and NSData? Or are you comparing this against your old Array<UInt8> type?
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Travis Griggs via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > I realize this ship has probably sailed a long while ago. I really like the > way the Foundation library is shaping up. With the changes in Swift3, I’ve > been moving any of my Array<Uint8> cases to using Data. A handful of handy > extensions to Data have made working with it nice. It’s much easier to figure > out how to extend Data than Array<UInt8>. And of course, the UIKit/Cocoa > libraries love Data things. > > That said, one minor nit I’ve noticed, especially with the inclusion of Date > and the dropping of the NS prefixes, is that when I’m scanning code, Date and > Data look a lot a like. Where Swift tries so hard to be expressive, this ends > up being a dissapointment. My particular app uses quite a bit of both. > > Of late, I’ve added a > > typealias Bytes = Data > > and begun replacing Data references with Bytes. > > It’s too early to tell if its a good replacement or not. I recognize this is > a minor issue, rooted in the history of NSData and who knows what else. But I > thought I’d shared the feedback anyway. > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
