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Conditionally conform Chain2Sequence to MutableCollection #217
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Is there a specific reason why Chain2Sequence does not conform to MutableCollection when Base1 and Base2 do?
I'm trying to build an API that uses two some MutableCollection<T> as parameters and one as return value. I need it to be mutable, because I need to change a specific element in the collection. Internally, the parameters will be chained using chain(_:_:) - or at least that's the goal.
I'm happy to provide a PR for this, but I wanted to see if there's a reason against it first.
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natecook1000 commentedon Dec 22, 2023
These kinds of wrapper collections typically aren't mutable – for example, when you called
reversed()on an array, the elements of the resultingReversedCollectionaren't mutable, even if your original array is.That said, I don't think it's necessarily the wrong thing to do here – in general the first mutation will make a copy of whichever base collection ends up getting modified, and from then it will be singly referenced. I've started a discussion in the forums to talk about the question – please add any more thoughts you have: https://forums.swift.org/t/making-collection-wrappers-mutable/69142