[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Improving operator requirements in protocols

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon May 02 2016, Tony Allevato <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Acknowledgments
>
> Thanks to Chris Lattner and Dave Abrahams for contributing to the early
> discussions, particularly regarding the need to improve type checker performance
> by genericizing protocol-based operators.

FWIW, I think you have omitted an important (maybe even the main)
argument for this arrangement, which is not type checker performance but
improved user experience by getting piles of overloads out of the global
namespace.

-- 
Dave