<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=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;">The second case would looks really strange without the variadic parameter (calling site) syntax and it would no longer look like it’s one continuous list of values.</div></div></blockquote></div>agreed, that would be odd — but I really hope that there will be a nice alternative in the future.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">One very fundamental thing is missing in Swift: Fixed-size arrays.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can't predict if or how this issue will be tackled, but the most elegant way I can see would be generic values:</div><div class="">let array: Array<size: 5, Int></div><div class="">If this happens, it should be possible to create arrays with a minimal size as well — and additionally, you could impose other restrictions (max length, even number of elements, length mod x = n…).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I repeat that this is all speculation, and it might never happen… but would you be fine with this alternative?</div></body></html>