[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Move public AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer API from StdlibCore -> Objective C Overlay

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Jul 22 2016, Ben Rimmington <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> On 21 Jul 2016, at 18:02, Michael Gottesman wrote:
>> 
>> This is a proposal to move AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer from
>> StdlibCore to the Objective C overlay. The reason to do this is that
>> ideally StdlibCore would not have any code specific to ObjC in
>
>> it. This is a small step that we can take in this direction by
>> moving the public API of AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer to the
>> ObjC overlay. The way that this would be done is that the
>> implementation for AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer would remain in
>> StdlibCore, but we would add an underscore to make that API private
>> to the standard library. Then inside the ObjC overlay, we would
>> create a typealias to the internal API with the non-underscored name
>> (i.e. make the typealias the public API). Then at a later point in
>> time we can move the implementation. The reason why I am not
>> proposing to move the implementation today is that there are
>> dependencies in Array/Hashed Collections on
>> AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer. Moving that code is a larger
>> project that is preconditioned on this proposal going in first as an
>> incremental step.
>
> If you want to move APIs which aren't cross-platform out of stdlib,
> should there be a similar proposal for the PlaygroundQuickLook enum
> and CustomPlaygroundQuickLookable protocol?
>
> <https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/stdlib/public/core/Mirror.swift>
>
> <https://github.com/apple/swift-xcode-playground-support>

That is a good question!  We don't have an obvious existing module into
which to move them, though, do we?

-- 
Dave