The review of SE-0241 has concluded.
Feedback on the initial proposal was mostly positive, but several people expressed some reservations about some of the new API, and the authors agreed to reduce the proposal to a more minimal change. That new version generally met with approval, with a few dissents:
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Some community members took the opportunity to register their disapproval of the lack of integer indexing into
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Lily Ballard expressed concern about the lack of structure of these encoded offsets and about their behavior when the offset does not correspond to a scalar boundary. The Core Team generally agrees with the proposal author that the offset not matching a scalar boundary is a programmer error for which trapping is consistent with Swift's general behavior on similar precondition violations.
Therefore, SE-0241 is accepted.
As always, thank you for participating in the evolution process.