> On Jun 6, 2016, at 1:59 PM, Ross O'Brien via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Given a protocol with an associated type:
>
> protocol Foo
> {
> associatedtype Bar
> }
>
> it should be possible to define a protocol conforming to Foo, for which Bar
> can be typealiased:
>
> protocol IntFoo : Foo
> {
> typealias Bar = Int
> }
>
> such that all conformers to IntFoo now have an associatedtype Bar being Int
> without having to define it themselves. At present IntFoo cannot declare a
> typealias (as this generates a warning that typealias has been deprecated),
> but can declare an 'associatedtype Bar = Int' which types conforming to
> IntFoo have to repeat to consider it properly declared. This re-declaration
> is redundant.
The “More Powerful Constraints for Associated Types” proposal provides a better
way to accomplish this:
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/284
- Doug
_______________________________________________
swift-evolution mailing list
swift-evolution@swift.org
https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
