What do you all think about adding the equivalent of Scala’s update method to collections that have the insert() func? This would likely take the form of:
public func inserted(newElement: Self.Generator.Element, atIndex i: Self.Index) -> Self {
var modified = self
modified.insert(newElement, atIndex: i)
return modified
}
I’ve had to do this manually quite a lot in my various programs, where I’ve had to return an array or dictionary with just one element modified, and I have a feeling that I am not alone. I think that this is quite a natural way to go about things, and the addition would cut down on boilerplate code.
— Sasha
P.S. Alternatives could be “.withInserted(el, atIndex: i)” or “.with(el, insertedAtIndex: i)"
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Alexandre Lopoukhine via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
Hello everyone!
What do you all think about adding the equivalent of Scala’s update method to collections that have the insert() func? This would likely take the form of:
public func inserted(newElement: Self.Generator.Element, atIndex i: Self.Index) -> Self {
var modified = self
modified.insert(newElement, atIndex: i)
return modified
}
I’ve had to do this manually quite a lot in my various programs, where I’ve had to return an array or dictionary with just one element modified, and I have a feeling that I am not alone. I think that this is quite a natural way to go about things, and the addition would cut down on boilerplate code.
— Sasha
P.S. Alternatives could be “.withInserted(el, atIndex: i)” or “.with(el, insertedAtIndex: i)"
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+1. This is very functional. Need to drill home the point that arrays have
copy semantics in the intro swift docs though, if we start going in this
direction.
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 7:12 AM Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Moving to swift-evolution.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Alexandre Lopoukhine via swift-dev > <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> What do you all think about adding the equivalent of Scala’s update
method to collections that have the insert() func? This would likely take
the form of:
>
> public func inserted(newElement: Self.Generator.Element, atIndex i:
Self.Index) -> Self {
> var modified = self
> modified.insert(newElement, atIndex: i)
> return modified
> }
>
> I’ve had to do this manually quite a lot in my various programs, where
I’ve had to return an array or dictionary with just one element modified,
and I have a feeling that I am not alone. I think that this is quite a
natural way to go about things, and the addition would cut down on
boilerplate code.
>
> — Sasha
>
> P.S. Alternatives could be “.withInserted(el, atIndex: i)” or “.with(el,
insertedAtIndex: i)"
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