<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 23, 2017, at 08:45, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_8204795069290857078bloop_markdown"><p>I wanted to read the proposal, but skipped it as soon as I’ve seen the syntax. From the esthetic point of you the proposed syntax is really ugly. Again I’m not speaking against the feature in general, nor against any of the technical benefits fixed-size array will provide to us. I simply dislike the syntax, which in my opinion does not fit to Swift.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What about a double colon?<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">let fsa:[5, 2::Int] = [5, 2::[::0, 0]: 5, [</span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">::</span>5, 1]: 6, default: -1]<br></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>I thought we'd mostly settled on "let fsa: [count * Type]" last time this came up.</div><div><br></div><div>- Dave Sweeris </div></body></html>