> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Georgios Moschovitis <george.moschovi...@icloud.com> > Subject: Re: [swift-users] inout generic struct parameter error > Date: 1 January 2017 at 11:26:11 PM GMT+2 > To: David Sweeris <daveswee...@mac.com> > >>> This kinda works but because we pass a struct at: >>> the ‘garbage collection’ at: >>> doesn’t affect the original array. > >> The passed-in array isn't going to get modified though, because you never >> change it. At least semantically speaking, arrays in swift are >> pass-by-value, so when you assign it to your struct's local storage and then >> later modify the *struct's* variable, only the local copy gets affected. If >> you want to mutate the passed-in array, you'll have to do it in the function >> you pass it to. > > That’s what I am trying to solve with the inout parameter. AFAICU if I use > inout, I can mutate the original array (with the remove(at:) call in the > iterator. > > -g. >
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