Pitch: Static and class subscripts

[Douglas_Gregor]

@DevAndArtist

I always wanted to write static subscripts here and there but then I always said to myself "the core team decided to not include static subscripts and reserve these for potential other language features that require special syntax on types instead of allowing them to be used the same way as non-static subscripts". Is this no longer the case?

I don't think that was ever the case. My recollection of the history is as @beccadax wrote it in the pitch: when we introduced subscripts, array types were still written Int[], so a zero-argument static subscript would have been ambiguous with an array type within expression context. Array syntax changed in an early beta of Swift 1.0, but we never got back to static subscripts.

Doug