[swift-evolution] Either protocol syntax

[Adrian Zubarev]

Look for Disjunctions (logical ORs) in type constraints. ;)

It’s rejected.



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Am 2. Februar 2017 um 22:26:44, Rex Fenley via swift-evolution (swift-evolution at swift.org) schrieb:

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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