[swift-evolution] Enhanced Existentials

[Russ Bishop]

> On Jan 4, 2017, at 8:48 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Would love to see this come forward into discussion.
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> Yeah. I'm less sure about the other enhancements to existentials fitting into Swift 4, e.g., the creation of existentials for protocols with associated types. Although important, it's a big feature that will take a bunch of design and implementation time, and I'm leery of accepting something that we might not actually be able to achieve. 
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>   - Doug

By this are you referring to generalized existentials? If so I’ll say this is such a constant pain point and perverts so many API designs… not to mention vomiting AnyXYZ type-erased wrappers everywhere… In my completely non-authoritative personal opinion we shouldn’t ship Swift 4 without it :)


Russ