[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0080: Failable Numeric Conversion Initializers

[Colin Barrett]

Thanks Matthew. Personally I would really like to see an analysis of the tradeoffs therein covered in the proposal in some way.

-Colin (via thumbs)

> On May 4, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Matthew Johnson <matthew at anandabits.com> wrote:
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>>> On May 4, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Colin Barrett via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> Swift numeric types all currently have a family of conversion initializers. In many use cases they leave a lot to be desired. Initializing an integer type with a floating point value will truncate any fractional portion of the number. Initializing with an out-of-range value traps.
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>> Have you considered whether it makes sense to keep these around? Maybe the failable ones should be the default, and give the other ones a more descriptive 1st argument label.
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> That’s a good question.  It might be a good idea, but I wanted to keep this proposal small and non-breaking to maximize chances of acceptance.  I would support that change to the proposal if the core team was interested in going that direction.
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>> -Colin
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