[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0065 A New Model for Collections and Indices

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via
swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> (On the other hand, it might be that I'm conceiving of the purpose of `limitedBy` differently from you—I think of it as a safety measure, but you may be thinking of it specifically as an automatic truncation mechanism.)

Hi Brent,

Could you explain what kind of safety do you have in mind?  Swift will
guarantee memory safety even if you attempt to advance an index past
endIndex using the non-limiting overload.

Dmitri

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