<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=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 2, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Félix Cloutier <<a href="mailto:felixcloutier@icloud.com" class="">felixcloutier@icloud.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">`[Int x N]` solves all of the problems that I mentioned, and I'm happy with that syntax. In fact, I'm championing its merits versus an approach that doesn't include the number of elements. :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unless I got things wrong this entire time, the <a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170731/038341.html" class="">proposed spelling</a> was `fixed [Int]`, with no mention of the number of elements.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I agree that an array with a dynamic, value-specific but fixed bound seems basically pointless. It's more of a minor optimization hint than a real type.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>John.</div><div><br class=""></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><div class="">Félix</div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 2 août 2017 à 09:00, John McCall <<a href="mailto:rjmccall@apple.com" class="">rjmccall@apple.com</a>> a écrit :</div><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">var foo = fixed [Int]()</div><div class="">for i in 0..<param {</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>foo.append(i)</div><div class="">}</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Arrays can't work if elements don't have a fixed size. How big is an element in this example?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>This is not the idea. The idea is more like</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""> let n = ...</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""> var foo = [Int x n](repeating: 13)</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">The bound value is still fundamentally part of the type of the variable; it's just that the actual value is not known statically.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">John.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>