<div dir="ltr">Sure, as I said I think the horse has bolted on this one and as you correctly point out you can get round the problem. Its just not as neat as just having a var arg initialiser and no array literal initialiser.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 January 2016 at 15:59, David Waite <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:david@alkaline-solutions.com" target="_blank">david@alkaline-solutions.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Keep in mind Array&lt;T&gt; cannot currently be stored in a Set (it will bridge to NSArray if the contained elements are compatible, which then supports Hashable.)<div><br></div><div>The non-labelled initializer expects a formed SequenceType.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to use varargs, you can use Set(arrayLiteral:[1], [2], [3]) - so no removal of the array literal convertible conformance needed, it does what you want already</div><div><br></div><div>-DW</div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 19, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">The horse has probably bolted on this one, but in general array literals can be confusing when used for anything other than an array. A compromise position might be to remove the array literal `init` from `Set` and replace it with a var arg `init`. It would break code, but not that much since `Set` is new and a migration tool could find it easily. This gives:</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">    let sI = Set(1) // Set of Int</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">    let sAI = Set([1]) // Set of array of Int</span></font></div><br>On Wednesday, 20 January 2016, Greg Parker &lt;<a href="mailto:gparker@apple.com" target="_blank">gparker@apple.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution &lt;<a>swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Tuesday, 19 January 2016, Jack Lawrence &lt;<a>jackl@apple.com</a>&gt; wrote:</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Liam Butler-Lawrence via swift-evolution &lt;<a>swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Set(&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c”) doesn’t compile. It currently has to be  Set(arrayLiteral: &quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;c”). That said, I’d be satisfied with removing the external parameter name “arrayLiteral”. Not only is it unnecessary, but it’s confusing too: variadic parameters are not the same as an Array.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">init(arrayLiteral:) is there to satisfy ArrayLiteralConvertible. Set([“a”, “b”, “c”]) works just fine.</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite">Sure, but you could add another overload without the label.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Only if you break existing code. Consider this expression:<div><br></div><div>   <span> </span>Set([&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;])</div><div><br></div><div>Is this</div><div>1. a Set&lt;String&gt; with two elements &quot;a&quot; and &quot;b&quot;</div><div>2. a Set&lt;Array&lt;String&gt;&gt; with one element [&quot;a&quot;, &quot;b&quot;]</div><div><br></div><div>Currently it means #1. You could change it to mean #2, but that breaks existing code that expects #1. You could try to overload the no-name initializer, but that will be confusing to humans in some cases.</div><div><br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Greg Parker    <span> </span><a>gparker@apple.com</a><span> </span>   <span> </span>Runtime Wrangler</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">--<span> </span></span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">  -- Howard.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">  -- Howard.<br></div>
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