[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Accepted with Revision] SE-0080: Failable Numeric Conversion Initializers

[Chris Lattner]

On May 11, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Thank you to Matthew Johnson for driving this discussion.  I filed SR-1491 to track this work, it would be a great starter bug.
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> Thanks Chris.  Is there a mechanism for the community to propose extensions to Foundation types?  I was under the impression that swift-evolution was the mechanism for proposing changes to any public Swift API including corelibs.

At the moment, there isn’t other than filing a radar on bugreporter.apple.com.  This is a bit of a procedural issue, because corelibs foundation is currently scoped to a direct reimplementation of the existing Foundation APIs.  This may improve in the future, but right now everyone is pretty occupied with high priority stuff.

That said, the Foundation team is aware of this proposal already.

-Chris