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

[Jordan Rose]

James or Erica (or someone else), can you explain what makes these types "placeholders"? I don't think of the other requirements in a protocol as "placeholder properties" or "placeholder methods".

My explanation of these things is "When a particular type X conforms to a protocol, you can ask about the types that X uses to implement the requirements of the protocol". I guess we could call them "related types" instead of "associated types", but that doesn't seem significantly different.

Jordan


> On Dec 23, 2015, at 12:42, James Campbell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> The thing is associated type means nothing to me, it's too technical. Placeholder type I think would be better even if it's only what we called it in the documentation 
> 
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