[swift-evolution] Ownership on protocol property requirements

[David Hart]

> On 7 May 2017, at 20:12, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Today these keywords have no meaning inside a protocol, so clearly it should be an error to use it in that context. I agree with Jordan that the error should be on the protocol.
> 
> It's entirely a different conversation whether the keyword should have meaning or not. If it should, it seems to me it should be limited to protocols that are limited to classes. But that's an additive feature we can discuss later.
> 
> The source-breaking bug fix that is more pressing today is removing meaningless keywords that can be misleading to users, because they have no effect but look like they should.

Yup, +1. Who wants to write a proposal?

>> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 11:00 Goffredo Marocchi via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> It would be useful to have a longer discussion on this as... I think that weak has a place there and should be enforced as a protocol is the public facing interface/api for the types who decide to adopt it.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On 7 May 2017, at 15:41, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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