[swift-evolution] Notes from Swift core team 2016-03-15 design discussion

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Wed Mar 23 20:01:11 CDT 2016


> On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:42 AM Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com <mailto:tseitz42 at icloud.com>> wrote:
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>> I actually do prefer the explicit variant without type inference as I find it much clearer to see what the typealias requires.
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> As do I. Also, we don’t currently have any place in the language where we infer constraints from the *definition* of an entity.
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> I strongly favor being explicit.

Thanks, I agree, I modified the proposal to include that.

-Chris

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