<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="">On Jan 10, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Michael Ilseman 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=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[Forgot to CC swift-evolution the first time]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">When this came up last, it was seen as more so a bug in the current implementation, rather than an explicit choice. There's no need for a proposal, just a JIRA: <a href="https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-115?jql=text%20~%20%22Generic%20subscript%22" class="">https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-115?jql=text%20~%20%22Generic%20subscript%22</a> </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It’s a nontrivial new user-facing feature with new syntax in the language, so it’ll need a proposal. ‘twould be good for the proposal to link to the JIRA ticket.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’ve only heard positive reactions toward this feature, and it’s something that the standard library could make good use of.</div><div><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Doug</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 10, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Chris Eidhof 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="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Recently, I've bumped into the lack of generic subscripts a few times. There are a bunch of useful things you could do with it. It's in the generics manifesto as well: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/GenericsManifesto.md#generic-subscripts" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/GenericsManifesto.md#generic-subscripts</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm thinking of drafting up a proposal for this (also thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/818868882316214274" class="">https://twitter.com/dgregor79/status/818868882316214274</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are there any good arguments against adding this?</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature">Chris Eidhof</div>
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