What are you proposing here, I don’t get it?! What role should .Protocol play? .Protocol is an ugly hack in Swift which should be removed anyway. It does more harm than good.
Our revised proposal was deferred from Swift 4: https://github.com/DevAndArtist/swift-evolution/blob/refactor_existential_metatypes/proposals/0126-refactor-metatypes.md -- Adrian Zubarev Sent with Airmail Am 1. Juli 2017 um 01:55:47, Daryle Walker via swift-evolution (swift-evolution@swift.org) schrieb: We have MyType.Type to indicate the meta-type of a type. And MyProtocol.Protocol to indicate the meta-type of a protocol. Would it be OK to add MyType.Protocol to identify all the protocols MyType follows? The result would be like if each protocol was connected by “&”, or “Any” if the type doesn’t follow any protocols. … Woah, I realized that this could be a bigger than anticipated. A type can specify its protocols directly, or through extension(s). Heck, I do that in my Cocoa projects to segregate each aspect of a class. So I guess we have to allow the protocol list to include those imported via extensions. … Why do I want to do this? It’s part of my retype/strong-typedef/alternate-interface idea. I originally made the developer list each protocol to re-implment separately in the export list and the protocol list. But that would be tedious for a long list of protocols. So I’m thinking “why not have a way to specify all of the protocols at once.” But I’m not sure on the syntax, that’s why I’m asking here. Alternatives could be things like “#protocolof(MyType)”. Unless we already have this capability?… (Having a retype that repeats all of the implementation type’s protocols is still useful. The types would have the same interface, but still don’t share function overloads.) — Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT mac DOT com _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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