[swift-evolution] [Idea] Generic subscripts

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Aug 3, 2016, at 1:57 AM, Tino Heth <2th at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> Since RangeExpression is a protocol compatible with any index type, it has to have an associated type
> I haven't read all linked information, but would the situation change with generic protocols?
> Thinks like "AnyGenerator" afaics would be superfluous if we had "protocol Generator<Type>", and the same might be true for RangeExpression.

No, this is not an appropriate use case for generic protocols. (Nor is Generator/IteratorProtocol, for that matter.)

Generic protocols would be for cases where a single concrete instance can conform to a protocol using several different types. Genuine use cases for that do exist, but they're few and far between.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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