<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="">Am 16.10.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 16, 2017, at 7:20 AM, Xiaodi Wu <<a href="mailto:xiaodi.wu@gmail.com" class="">xiaodi.wu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">To start with, the one you gave as an example at the beginning of this discussion: Two sets with identical elements which have different internal storage and thus give different orderings as sequences. You yourself have argued that the confusion around this is enough of a problem that we need to make a source-breaking change (renaming it) to warn people that the results of the ‘elementsEqual’ algorithm are undefined for sets and dictionaries.</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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">No, I am arguing that the confusion about ‘elementsEqual’ is foremost a problem with its name; the result of this operation is not at all undefined for two sets but actually clearly defined: it returns true if two sets have the same elements in the same iteration order, which is a publicly observable behavior of sets (likewise dictionaries).</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">But that iteration order is undefined and could easily change due to changes in the private/internal structure of sets/dictionaries. Algorithms that rely on that “publicly observable behavior” (i.e. leaking of internals) will suddenly break. You keep claiming that this bug is a feature because it is the current behavior… but that is tautological reasoning.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Indeed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Thorsten</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>