<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="">I do not think that this should be included in the default library as it is inconsistent with the behavior we generally have on collections (where user is responsible for correct indexing). However, it is quite trivial to define a new subscript operation, e.g. subscript(safe: Range)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Taras<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Apr 2016, at 14:23, Luis Henrique B. Sousa via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">This proposal seeks to provide a safer <font face="monospace, monospace" class="">..<</font> (aka half-open range operator) in order to avoid **Array index out of range** errors in execution time.<br class=""><br class="">Here is my first draft for this proposal: <a href="https://github.com/luish/swift-evolution/blob/half-open-range-operator/proposals/nnnn-safer-half-open-range-operator.md" class="">https://github.com/luish/swift-evolution/blob/half-open-range-operator/proposals/nnnn-safer-half-open-range-operator.md</a><br class=""><br class="">In short, doing that in Swift causes a runtime error:<div class=""><p class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span class="">let</span><span class=""> a </span><span class="">=</span><span class=""> [</span><span class="">1</span><span class="">,</span><span class="">2</span><span class="">,</span><span class="">3</span><span class="">]<br class=""></span><span class="">let</span><span class=""> b </span><span class="">=</span><span class=""> a[</span><span class="">0</span><span class="">..<</span><span class="">5</span><span class="">]<br class=""></span><span class="">print</span><span class="">(b)</span></font></p><p class=""><span class="">> Error running code: <br class=""></span>> fatal error: Array index out of range</p><p class=""><span class="">The proposed solution is to slice the array retur</span>ning all elements that are below the half-open operator, even though the number of elements is lesser than the ending of the half-open operator. So the example above would return [1,2,3]. <br class="">We can see this very behaviour in other languages, such as Python and Ruby as shown in the proposal draft.</p><p class="">This would eliminate the need for verifications on the array size before slicing it -- and consequently runtime errors in cases when the programmer didn't. <br class=""><br class="">Viewing that it is my very first proposal, any feedback will be helpful.</p></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""></div><br class=""></div><div class="">Luis Henrique Borges</div><div class="">@luishborges</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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