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

[Ben Cohen]

Hi everyone,

The core team met and reviewed the discussion of this proposal so far, and had the following mid-review feedback to relay back to the list:

Regarding the “Number” protocol: it was felt this is likely to cause confusion with NSNumber, given the NS-prefix-dropping versions of other Foundation types indicate a value-typed concrete type equivalent, which this won’t be. The recommendation is to use “Numeric" instead.
Regarding the question of the trailing argument to distinguish overflow-checking vs expanding versions of multiplied: rather than add an enum or use the void trick in order to do this via arguments, it is better to just distinguish the two functions via different base names.
Regarding restoring the BitwiseOperations protocol – the team feels that the bitset use case can be modeled with SetAlgebra rather than retaining a protocol with only bitwise operators.
popcount – although this is a term of art, in general it’s best to avoid abbreviations, so the suggestion is to rename it populationCount, which also helps settle whether the “c” should be capitalized and confusion over the other meaning of “pop".

- Ben

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 5:45 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hello Swift community,
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> The re-review of SE-0104 "Protocol-oriented integers" begins now and runs through February 25, 2017. This proposal was accepted for Swift 3, but was not implemented in time for the release. The revised proposal is available here:
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> 	https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0104-improved-integers.md>
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