<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 Jan 9, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Zach Waldowski via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="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; font-family: Arial;" class="">I'm not sure a valid use case by a third party makes it hold its weight for inclusion in the stdlib. Reproducing its feature set is extremely trivial, and would probably allow you to hint the implementation details better for your use case.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Right. The functionality can be moved out to a third party package outside the stdlib, or copied directly into a project that needs it (worse case). We’re not removing the ability for Swift code to do this, just talking about removing it from the swift standard library (which has a very high bar for functionality).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>