[swift-evolution] [SE-0011] Re-considering the replacement keyword for "typealias"

Douglas Gregor dgregor at apple.com
Tue Dec 22 20:01:51 CST 2015


> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Matt Whiteside via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> “parameter” is a good thought.  On it’s own it seems like it’s missing something though.  But it gives me other ideas: “typeparam”, “type param", “typeparameter”, or “type parameter”.


It’s not a parameter, though, because it does not vary the way a parameter does: a given type X cannot conform to a protocol with two different bindings for a given associated type.

	- Doug



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