<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 29, 2015, at 10:23 PM, David Waite <<a href="mailto:david@alkaline-solutions.com" class="">david@alkaline-solutions.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I do rather like that, although the thread stalled a week ago which is equivalent to 1 swift-evolution year :-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the current thinking that “$ + 3” and its ilk be a literal or computation returning some sort of Offset or Slice value, and SequenceType would define a subscript operation taking a Slice and returning an Element or SubSequence respectively?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, something like that.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-DW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Dave Abrahams <<a href="mailto:dabrahams@apple.com" class="">dabrahams@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 28, 2015, at 5:35 PM, David Waite via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">If one were to rename dropFirst/dropLast, I’d love for prefix and suffix to be renamed also to better pair with the methods.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I prefer to address this by creating a unified EDSL for describing all of these operations as discussed in this thread: <a href="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=ED492767%2dE1ED%2d41D6%2d90A8%2dBCA9AC6D0F34%40apple.com" class="">Re: Proposal: Python's indexing and slicing</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Dave</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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