[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Cleaning up stdlib pointer and buffer routines (Open Issues Affecting Standard Library API Stability)

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution
<swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 7, 2016, at 12:46 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 6, 2016, at 11:03, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> * Remove unsafeAddressOf. "We are not aware of any real use cases for it.
>> If there are any, it should be renamed to unsafeAddress(of:) to follow the
>> guidelines." (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1957 rdar://problem/18589289)
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> Oops, I just responded to this on another thread. Pasting:
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> It's minor, but I use unsafeAddressOf regularly for writing `description`
> methods:
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>     var description: String {
>         return "<\(self.dynamicType): \(unsafeAddressOf(self))>{ more info
> here... }"
>     }
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> I guess this would be covered by some generalized solution for format
> specifiers in string interpolations, but I gather that won't happen for
> quite a while...
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> I believe `ObjectIdentifier(self)` prints basically the same way.
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> Jordan
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> Unfortunately, it doesn't:
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> print("\(ObjectIdentifier(obj))")
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> --> ObjectIdentifier(_value: (Opaque Value))

We should absolutely fix that (does not even require a swift-evolution
proposal).  This string that it converts to is completely useless.

Dmitri

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