[swift-evolution] [Draft] Automatically deriving Equatable and Hashable for certain value types

[Patrick Smith]

This would be very handy! It’s one of those rare scenarios where I think “I can’t believe Swift makes me type all this out, there must be an easier way”.

I think explicitly conformance to Equatable and Hashable would be preferable. This means if one of the members is not Equable/Hashable, the user knows by getting an error of ‘Does not conform to Equatable, must implement func ==’ at the type level rather than scratching their head when instances are not automatically Equatable. It also means code is only generated when it is needed.

There’s a small typo (before [sic] below):

> On 26 May 2016, at 4:28 AM, Tony Allevato via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> As with raw-value enums today, should the derived conformance be completely explicit [sic], or should users have to explicitly list conformance with Equatable and Hashable in order for the compiler to generate the derived implementation?

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