<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="">There is an older discussion that is somewhat linked to this topic:<div class="">"Removing the empty initialiser requirement from RangeReplaceableCollection"<br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160704/023642.html" class="">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160704/023642.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Imho "DefaultConstructible" types can be very handy, but so far, it seems no one has presented a single use case that is important enough to justify the inclusion in the stdlib.</div><div class="">On the other hand, I'm quite sure that there's much functionality in the stdlib that many people consider as superfluous…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I guess adding the protocol wouldn't have a big impact on size, so for for me, the question is "Does this protocol confuse users of Swift?", which I'd answer with "yes, possibly" (unless someone comes up with a name that is more intuitive).</div></body></html>