Thanks for the clarification.  I wasn’t sure if alloc and new needed to be 
exposed to support some particular functionality - I’m glad to hear that this 
isn’t necessary.  

Thanks for all of the great work that everyone has been doing on Swift.  Your 
team is really amazing.   

Sincerely,

Michael Patrick Ellard


> On Feb 17, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Mike Ellard 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I was exploring the NSObject documentation for Swift and I was surprised to 
>> see that alloc is callable in Swift.  
>> What I would expect:
>> 
>> A) Swift would not expose alloc or `new` at all.  There shouldn’t be a way 
>> to create objects without going through an initializer.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> You’re right, new and alloc shouldn’t be exposed to a Swift programmer.  They 
> are effectively an implementation detail (which isn't memory safe to expose 
> as you point out).  Thanks for filing the radar, we’ll take care of it when 
> we can.
> 
> -Chris

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