[swift-evolution] Proposal Sketch: Bring flexible array members in as Array|UnsafeReference

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:29 PM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> MIDIMetaEvent and MIDIEventUserData are both examples of framework
> provided types which rely on flexible member arrays. Their last member is
> (officially) an array of UInt8 with 1 element. In practice, developers are
> meant to allocate enough space for an array of the necessary length along
> with the rest of the struct.
>
> These members come into swift as single element tuples. I propose either
> automatic import of these as Array or UnsafeReference.
>

It is important to sketch out an implementation strategy for this proposal.

Dmitri

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