[swift-evolution] Either protocol syntax

[Rex Fenley]

Hello, I believe there was some discussion about this quite awhile ago. I
was wondering if there's any interest in including a protocol 'or' type
that would be the intersection of two protocols. This could be really
useful in situations where a framework that the user has no control over
implements a portion of some often used protocol. Such as specialized
collections from an Database framework that don't implement
RangeReplaceableCollection but have a set of methods that are equivalent.
The user can then implement a protocol that is the intersection of those
set of methods and not duplicate code.

Simplified example:

protocol Animal {
    var hasEars: Bool { get }
    func grow()
}

protocol Plant {
    var isGreen: Bool { get }
    func grow()
}

protocol LivingThing = Plant | Animal // or a different syntax

LivingThing's is as follows
{
    func grow()
}

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