[swift-users] Why does RangeReplaceableCollection require an empty initialiser?

[Zhao Xin]

According to the document of Swift 3, Array has already conformed
protocol RangeReplaceableCollection.

Zhaoxin

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Tim Vermeulen via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> RangeReplaceableCollection has three initialisers: init(), init(_:) and
> init(repeating:count:). The latter two are implemented using the empty
> initialiser. But why are these initialisers part of this particular
> protocol? As far as I can tell, no other methods of this protocol depend on
> these initialisers. The requirement of the empty initialiser makes it
> impossible to have a collection conform to this protocol that needs
> additional data for its initialisation.
>
> For instance, I was making an array that works with any Strideable
> indices, not just integers. A startIndex is needed for its initialisation,
> so I can’t really conform it to RangeReplaceableCollection. If I do it
> anyways (with a fatalError() in the required empty initialiser) everything
> seems to work just fine, except for the protocol’s three initialisers.
>
> Perhaps these initialisers should be moved to a (possible new) different
> protocol?
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