[swift-evolution] Proposal: Contiguous Variables (A.K.A. Fixed Sized Array Type)

[Joe Groff]

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <jtbandes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I like this idea, but the syntax seems dangerously close to a call site for  "func *(lhs: Int, rhs: Any.Type)"  (which is obviously ill-advised, but it is allowed).
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>> Maybe we could take advantage of something which would be very invalid under the current grammar, namely (n T) rather than (n * T):
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>>    let values: (4 Int) = (1, 2, 3, 4)

Bare juxtaposition might be problematic if we ever do introduce type-level integer expressions, though.

-Joe