[swift-evolution] Pitch: Improved Swift pointers

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> What about `value:`?
> 
> `ptr.initialize(value: value)`
> `ptr.initialize(value: value, count: 13)`
> `ptr.initialize(as: UInt16.self, at: 0, value: value, count: 13)`

Doesn't read as a sentence. Consider how "initialize to 3" sounds different from "initialize value 3".

Personally, I'd go with:

	ptr.initialize(to: value)
	ptr.initialize(to: value, repeatCount: 3)

(Or just `repeat`/`repeating` if you don't feel like you need the word "count" to disambiguate.)

-- 
Brent Royal-Gordon
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