<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 Sep 5, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Taylor Swift <<a href="mailto:kelvin13ma@gmail.com" class="">kelvin13ma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="Singleton"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" 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-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">UMRP (raw pointer):</div><div class="">--- func initializeMemory<T>(as:at:(=0)<wbr class="">count:(1)to:)</div><div class="">+++ func initializeMemory<T>(as:<wbr class="">repeating:count:) // remove default count<span class="m_-1264289912044773242Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">still extremely suspicious of this but i’m willing to compromise. also there should be an `<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace;" class="">initializeMemory<T>(at:to:)</span>` to match the typed methods</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto" 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;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" 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;" class="">Do you mean initializeMemory<T>(as:to:)?</div></blockquote><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></span><div class="">I don’t think it’s necessary since raw buffers are not normally used to hold a single typed element. We don’t need symmetry between raw and typed pointers and I wouldn’t want to add an API that will never be used. So, I would be ok with it only if there’s some use case that I’m overlooking.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The only case i can think of is initializing a buffer header but then again i rarely use raw pointers so i’m not sure how much this feature would be used. However, this function is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/unsafemutablerawpointer/2427589-initializememory" class="">already</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the API (with a default count of 1 and offset of 0) so there’s that.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Yeah, but you’re deprecating the old API entry point anyway. The `at` argument was never used AFAICT. I doubt code is using the default `count` and it seems like a fixit could handle it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Andy</div></body></html>