[swift-evolution] Generic Subscripts

[Chris Eidhof]

I agree with Dave. To me, building in a limit so that the return type can't
be inferred seems arbitrary.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> on Fri Jan 13 2017, John McCall <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm also not sure we'd ever want the element type to be inferred from
> > context like this.  Generic subscripts as I see it are about being
> > generic over *indexes*, not somehow about presenting a polymorphic
> > value.
>
> Actually I *would* want to be able to do that, though I admit it's the
> 1% case (or less).
>
> --
> -Dave
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