[swift-evolution] Feature request/suggestion: object conforming to a protocol type

[Adrian Zubarev]

This is part of the existential types and a highly wanted feature. You can read more about here and here.



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Am 21. November 2016 um 22:01:33, Richard Henry via swift-evolution (swift-evolution at swift.org) schrieb:

Hopefully this is the right mailing list...

It seems like there’s currently no way to declare a type that is an object conforming to a protocol in Swift, and I think that would be a useful language feature to add.

To be super clear about what I mean, if I have the following code:

class MyClass {
…
}

protocol MyProtocol {
…
}

There is currently no way to do something like (in pseudo-code):

var thing: MyClass & MyProtocol = …

In Objective-C, you would do:

MyClass <MyProtocol> *thing ...

Is this up for consideration, or is there a reason why this isn’t possible? Thanks.

Richard
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