<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 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="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;"><div class=""><div class="">[…]</div>Set conforming to Collection is even worse than just conforming to Sequence as a quote from the documentation shows: "<span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition to the operations that collections inherit from the <code class="code-voice" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sequence</code> protocol, you gain access to methods that depend on accessing an element at a specific position in a collection."</span></div><div class="">Clearly the elements of a Set do not have specific positions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s not at all clear to me, could you elaborate? My understanding is that elements of Set definitely *do* have a position, and that’s why you can use an index on a set to retrieve the element. The same index on the same set retrieves the same element.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>A Set only has "indices" because it confirms to a protocol where almost all the requirements are meaningless for an unordered collection. Or at best, for the same reason it has an "order": as a side-effect of the fact that it can be iterated over, you can give indices for each element on a specific iteration; those indices are meaningless for the set itself, and should not be used for anything but a full, order-independent iteration.</div></body></html>