> On Nov 8, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Anton Zhilin via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > 2016-11-08 23:53 GMT+03:00 Pyry Jahkola <pyry.jahk...@iki.fi > <mailto:pyry.jahk...@iki.fi>>: > > > > Then why not just: > > public protocol ExpressibleByIntLiteral { > static var `nil`: Self > } > > …such that Foo.nil creates your nil value of type Foo? > > > This proposal is not about creating an alternate syntax for nil as > Optional<Foo>. It’s about granting nil literal its own type: > > let a = nil > print(type(of: a)) //=> Nil
Is this desirable? John.
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