[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0104: Protocol-oriented integers

[Karl]

+1

Looks very good. A couple of points:

- I’m not convinced about ‘absoluteValue’, with an associated type. I think it should return the same value as ‘abs()’ or have a different name if it’s really needed at all; the example of a print function is a bit weak IMO.
- I’m not sure about an ‘nthWord()’ getter without a corresponding setter.
- I would like ‘floor’ and ‘ceil’ to be part of the standard library (or some equivalent). It annoys me that I have to import Darwin/Glibc to properly convert between standard library types. Would this go with the initialisers from FloatingPoint on Integer, or somewhere on FloatingPoint?

Definitely a step up from what we have, and a good foundation to build on.

Karl

> On 23 Jun 2016, at 02:52, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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