[swift-evolution] Enhanced Existentials

[Karl Wagner]

> On 7 Jan 2017, at 08:04, Russ Bishop via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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 :)
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> Russ
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There is one little thing we could do to make that easier to live with: we could allow closure properties to satisfy function requirements on protocols.

It’s on my wishlist of things to propose in phase 2: https://gist.github.com/karwa/52b35a8a1f3bebc24264df5aeb2aa761#allow-function-requirements-in-protocols-to-be-satisfied-by-closure-type-properties

- Karl
 <https://gist.github.com/karwa/52b35a8a1f3bebc24264df5aeb2aa761#allow-function-requirements-in-protocols-to-be-satisfied-by-closure-type-properties>
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