[swift-evolution] [Pitch] New Version of Array Proposal

[Taylor Swift]

Using the *multiplication operator* as a *separator* character seems like
an extraordinarily bad idea.

let fsa:[2 * Int] = [2 * 5, 3] // [10, 3] ???

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:59 AM, David Sweeris <davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:

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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 23, 2017, at 08:45, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> I wanted to read the proposal, but skipped it as soon as I’ve seen the
>> syntax. From the esthetic point of you the proposed syntax is really ugly.
>> Again I’m not speaking against the feature in general, nor against any of
>> the technical benefits fixed-size array will provide to us. I simply
>> dislike the syntax, which in my opinion does not fit to Swift.
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> What about a double colon?
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> let fsa:[5, 2::Int] = [5, 2::[::0, 0]: 5, [::5, 1]: 6, default: -1]
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> I thought we'd mostly settled on "let fsa: [count * Type]" last time this
> came up.
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> - Dave Sweeris
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