[swift-evolution] Swift 3 Ranges

[David Hart]

Hi people,

I’ve recently started migrating some Swift 2 projects to Swift 3. I came across the split of Range into Range and ClosedRange and I’ve really struggled with it. Specifically, in Swift 2, I had a struct with a Range property that was initialised in many places with either a closed or open range:

struct Day { … }
struct Day : Comparable { … }
struct Day : Strippable { … }

struct Info {
    let name: String
    let range: Range<Day>
}

Info(name: "Christmas Vacation", range: twentyfith...thirtyfirst)
Info(name: "Summer Vacation", range: someday..<otherday)

Now, in Swift 3, it seems like we’ve lost a type to represent any range to allow an API client the flexibility to specify it as he wishes. Is there a solution to this problem through a protocol which both ranges conform to, or are we stuck with this because of the new API?

protocol RangeType {
    associatedtype Bounds
    let lowerBound: Bound { get }
    let upperBound: Bound { get }
    // what else? not even sure if it is possible to define such a protocol
}

David.
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