[swift-evolution] modifying Array<Element> to return Element! when subscripted

[T.J. Usiyan]

What about an additional method? No subscripting, just a method that throws
instead of trapping?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Thu Jun 23 2016, "L. Mihalkovic via swift-evolution" <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> >> On Jun 23, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Pranjal Satija via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Would modifying array subscripts to return implicitly unwrapped
> >> optionals be a bad idea? This way, if an array is indexed out of
> >> bounds,
> >
> > Most out of bounds errors originate in bad code. So now instead of
> > forcing people to rewrite it or at least have more bad code to be more
> > defensive, this would give an incentive to ignore the original problem
> > and never learn to code properly.
>
> +1; I am opposed to this.  If it's not already on the list of
> commonly-rejected proposals, I'm surprised, as it comes up often.
>
> --
> Dave
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