[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Remove type inference for associated types

[Paulo Faria]

> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Finally, I am very concerned that there are protocols such as Collection,
>>> with many inferrable associated types, and that conforming to these
>>> protocols could become *much* uglier.

Unfortunately I have a specific use case in which this argument would be very strong.

Basically this:

extension TodoController : ResourceController {}

Would have to become this:

extension TodoController : ResourceController {
    public typealias CreateInput = Todo
    public typealias UpdateInput = Todo

    public typealias ListOutput = Todo
    public typealias CreateOutput = Todo
    public typealias DetailOutput = Todo
    public typealias UpdateOutput = Todo

    public typealias DetailID = String
    public typealias UpdateID = String
    public typealias DestroyID = String
}

I could reduce the amount of associated types but this would reduce the flexibility of the protocol by a huge factor and would make it much less powerful. I’m very torn about this because I do want generics to get better. Specifically I’m looking forward to conditional conformances. But this would be a too high cost imho. I know this is just one example. But maybe there are more examples like this out there. I have to admit this one really got to me. :(
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