<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFHello-Regular;" class="">Proposal Link:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0186-remove-ownership-keyword-support-in-protocols.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0186-remove-ownership-keyword-support-in-protocols.md</a><br style="font-family: SFHello-Regular;" class=""><br style="font-family: SFHello-Regular;" class=""><font face="SFHello-Regular" class="">The review of SE-0186 “Remove ownership keyword support in&nbsp;protocols” ran from September 20 to 27, 2017.</font><div class=""><font face="SFHello-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFHello-Regular" class="">The proposal has been accepted.<br class=""><br class="">Feedback for the proposal — which many&nbsp;interpreted as being mostly a compiler bug fix — was limited but unanimously positive. &nbsp;The consensus was that removing the support for these ownership keywords in protocols removes false expectations on their&nbsp;behavior, which could be a source of bugs.</font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="SFHello-Regular" class="">Ted Kremenek</font><br style="font-family: SFHello-Regular;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFHello-Regular;" class="">Review Manager</span></div></div></div></body></html>