[swift-evolution] STL (not!) (was: Proposal: An Either Type in the STL)

[Andrew Bennett]

Or the Swift Common Module? SCM

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> How about the Swift Standard Library (SSL)?  ;-)
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
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>> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Developer via swift-evolution <
>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> It’s high time the STL admitted some kind of disjoint union type…
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>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> The STL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library> is a
>> hugely influential and important effort, but it is not the Swift standard
>> library.  We don't want to be seen as either co-opting the name or taking
>> credit for its design, nor do we want to sell short the unique strengths of
>> Swift's own standard library by letting it be confused with that other body
>> of work.  My humble request is that, if we want to use a short name to
>> refer to the Swift standard library, we choose a different one.  "Stdlib"
>> seems workable and precedented in our source directory layout, for example.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Dave
>>
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