* Give Sequence a top-level Element, constrain Iterator to match
* Remove many instances of Iterator.
* Fixed various hard-coded tests
* XFAIL a few tests that need further investigation
* Change assoc type for arrayLiteralConvertible
* Mop up remaining "better expressed as a where clause" warnings
* Fix UnicodeDecoders prototype test
* Fix UIntBuffer
* Fix hard-coded Element identifier in CSDiag
* Fix up more tests
* Account for flatMap changes
It is still possible to get the same behavior by providing an explicit
type context, or in a generic code, but otherwise, `String("")!` will
not compile.
* removing .characters from examples
* beginning new String doc revisions
* improvements to the String Foundation overlay docs
* minor revisions elsewhere
The best high-level APIs for decoding/transcoding are still under active
investigation. It's likely we want more views. Therefore, leave
de-underscored/public only the lowest-level APIs for now.
Now that `String` conforms to the `BidirectionalCollection` protocol, in
the expression `let x = [""].joined()` the best matching overload for
`joined` is no longer the one returning `String`.
Fixes: <rdar://problem/31899440>
Update for SE-0107: UnsafeRawPointer
This adds a "mutating" initialize to UnsafePointer to make
Immutable -> Mutable conversions explicit.
These are quick fixes to stdlib, overlays, and test cases that are necessary
in order to remove arbitrary UnsafePointer conversions.
Many cases can be expressed better up by reworking the surrounding
code, but we first need a working starting point.
This is another necessary step in introducing changes
for SE-0107: UnsafeRawPointer.
UnsafeRawPointer is great for bytewise pointer operations.
OpaquePointer goes away.
The _RawByte type goes away.
StringBuffer always binds memory to the correct CodeUnit
when allocating memory.
Before accessing the string, a dynamic element width check
allows us to assume the bound memory type.
Generic entry points like atomicCompareExchange no longer handle
both kinds of pointers. Normally that's good because you
should not be using generics in that case, just upcast
to raw pointer. However, with pointers-to-pointers
you can't do that.
It replaces String initializers taking Character or UnicodeScalar as a repeating value by a more general initializer that takes a String as a repeating value. This is done to avoid the ambiguities in the current String API, which can be only resolved by explicit casting.
String.append(_:UnicodeScalar) APIs is also removed to match these changes.
In various cases where we had global operators for non-generic
concrete types (such as String + String), move those operators into
the type. This should not affect the sources, but makes the exposition
of the library cleaner.
Plus, it's a good test for the compiler, which uncovered a few issues
where the compiler was coupled with the library.
