Is there a reason that Swift array assignment is inconsistent (neither a reference nor a deep copy)?

Question

I\'m reading the documentation and I am constantly shaking my head at some of the design decisions of the language. But the thing that really got me puzzled is how arrays a

Answer 1

A lot of Swift early adopters have complained about this error-prone array semantics and Chris Lattner has written that the array semantics had been revised to provide full value semantics ( Apple Developer link for those who have an account). We will have to wait at least for the next beta to see what this exactly means.