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Edit: the original question was answered on StackOverflow, so I won't be deleting it or reposting it here.

A month ago, before this site existed, I had asked a question on StackOverflow which was fairly theoretical in nature and got no attention (low views, no votes up or down, no answers, not even any comments). It's this question about how Swift handles deep vs. shallow copies for a value type, and why the results differ slightly when I would expect them to be exactly the same.

Since Swift is a less common tag on StackOverflow (I believe it was only 4% of SO users as of last year's survey), any questions that aren't straightforward tend to sit unanswered for a very long time compared to the more popular tags. But, as this particular question could also be considered as being about an implementation decision in an existing programming language (which I saw are on topic here), might it be more likely to be answered on this site?

If the community decides that the question is worthwhile and that it would fit here, I will delete the original and re-post the question on PLDI.

A month ago, before this site existed, I had asked a question on StackOverflow which was fairly theoretical in nature and got no attention (low views, no votes up or down, no answers, not even any comments). It's this question about how Swift handles deep vs. shallow copies for a value type, and why the results differ slightly when I would expect them to be exactly the same.

Since Swift is a less common tag on StackOverflow (I believe it was only 4% of SO users as of last year's survey), any questions that aren't straightforward tend to sit unanswered for a very long time compared to the more popular tags. But, as this particular question could also be considered as being about an implementation decision in an existing programming language (which I saw are on topic here), might it be more likely to be answered on this site?

If the community decides that the question is worthwhile and that it would fit here, I will delete the original and re-post the question on PLDI.

Edit: the original question was answered on StackOverflow, so I won't be deleting it or reposting it here.

A month ago, before this site existed, I had asked a question on StackOverflow which was fairly theoretical in nature and got no attention (low views, no votes up or down, no answers, not even any comments). It's this question about how Swift handles deep vs. shallow copies for a value type, and why the results differ slightly when I would expect them to be exactly the same.

Since Swift is a less common tag on StackOverflow (I believe it was only 4% of SO users as of last year's survey), any questions that aren't straightforward tend to sit unanswered for a very long time compared to the more popular tags. But, as this particular question could also be considered as being about an implementation decision in an existing programming language (which I saw are on topic here), might it be more likely to be answered on this site?

If the community decides that the question is worthwhile and that it would fit here, I will delete the original and re-post the question on PLDI.

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Quack E. Duck
Quack E. Duck
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Would this question about copying structs in Swift be on topic here?

A month ago, before this site existed, I had asked a question on StackOverflow which was fairly theoretical in nature and got no attention (low views, no votes up or down, no answers, not even any comments). It's this question about how Swift handles deep vs. shallow copies for a value type, and why the results differ slightly when I would expect them to be exactly the same.

Since Swift is a less common tag on StackOverflow (I believe it was only 4% of SO users as of last year's survey), any questions that aren't straightforward tend to sit unanswered for a very long time compared to the more popular tags. But, as this particular question could also be considered as being about an implementation decision in an existing programming language (which I saw are on topic here), might it be more likely to be answered on this site?

If the community decides that the question is worthwhile and that it would fit here, I will delete the original and re-post the question on PLDI.