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

[Dave Abrahams]

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

>> On Jul 22, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> on Fri Jul 22 2016, Ben Rimmington
>
>> <swift-evolution at swift.org
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>> 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?
>
> This is just an incremental proposal. The playground work should be in
> a different proposal so we keep this proposal focused.

+1

> Michael
>
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>> Dave
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