<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=""><div class="">I don’t know enough about how ABIs work, but if this is out of scope for Swift 3, is there a way to add some “reserved for future use” bits or something now so that the ABI changes less often? It’d be a shame for people to be hesitant about this stuff for Swift 4 (or whatever) because they don’t want to break compatibility with some 3rd-party library that isn’t being maintained anymore.</div><br class=""><div class="">
- Dave Sweeris
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 23, 2016, at 11:30, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">[…] Many of the other features I’ve cut, including the initialization generalizations and extensions, would also be ABI-breaking changes at the implementation level.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">-Joe</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>