<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <<a href="mailto:dexonsmith@apple.com" class="">dexonsmith@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2020 Dec 1, at 21:04, Chris Lattner <<a href="mailto:clattner@nondot.org" class="">clattner@nondot.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) are you, or anyone else, interested in driving an llvm::Vector proposal + coding standard change to get us going in the right direction? I don’t think we need a mass migration of the code base, just get the policy aligned right plus the new type name to exist.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'll try to get a minimal patch together with docs and send an RFC later this week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(</div><div class="">I think the initial patch could be as simple as:</div><div class="">```</div><div class="">template <class T> using Vector = SmallVector<T, 0>;</div><div class="">```</div><div class="">but maybe we'd want to rename `SmallVectorImpl` to `VectorImpl`, or maybe there are other ideas, but off topic for this thread...</div><div class="">)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Right, I think it is as simple as the using declaration, but also includes a revision to the coding standards and programmer manual dox.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I do think that renaming SmallVectorImpl to VectorImpl would make sense, that is something we can stage in over time (introduce the alternate name, rename everything in tree, then drop the old name in a few months).</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>