<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></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 Jun 2, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Matthew Johnson <<a href="mailto:matthew@anandabits.com" class="">matthew@anandabits.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="">I don't disagree with the points you make. But one can argue that this is a good thing. It calls attention to code that requires extra attention and care. In some ways this is similar to 'UnsafeMutablePointer<T>' vs '*T'. Verbosity was a deliberate choice in that case.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">And mentioned.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/erica/swift-evolution/blob/sizestride/proposals/XXXX-sidestride.md" class="">https://github.com/erica/swift-evolution/blob/sizestride/proposals/XXXX-sidestride.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>