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

[Zhao Xin]

Then how you defined the index to conform to Strideable? Below code does
work as it seams that you can't use generics in subscripts.

subscript<T:Strideable>(index:T) -> Element


Zhaoxin

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Tim Vermeulen <tvermeulen at me.com> wrote:

>
> On 6 Jul 2016, at 14:03, Zhao Xin <owenzx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to the document of Swift 3, Array has already conformed
> protocol RangeReplaceableCollection.
>
>
> That’s exactly why I also want to conform my wrapper to that protocol? I
> think there’s a misunderstanding. I’m making a collection that can be
> subscripted with any index (that conforms to Strideable), but behaves like
> an array otherwise.
>
>
> 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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