[swift-evolution] Derived Equatable conformance akin to Codable

[Tony Allevato]

I've been working on this very thing for a while :)

Proposal PR: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/706

Implementation PR: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/9619

I was really hoping to get it into Swift 4 but the deadline is fast
approaching, he proposal hasn't been officially reviewed yet (there's a
thread on this list from a few weeks ago where we hashed out a couple
drafts), and the implementation, based on the smoke test, seems to have a
strange issue that only occurs on Linux (assuming it's not unrelated) that
I haven't been able to track down yet.
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:10 AM Logan Shire via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Given we now have precedent in the form of the derived Codable conformance
> coming in Swift 4.0,
> it begs the question why we don’t offer the same behavior for value types
> that declare themselves to be Equatable
> and have all Equatable properties. E.g.
>
> struct A: Equatable {
>   let foo: String
>   let bar: Int
> }
>
> struct B: Equatable {
>   let baz: Double
> }
>
> struct C: Equatable {
>   let a: A
>   let b: B
> }
>
> let a = A(foo: “hello”, bar: 1)
> let a2 = A(foo: “hello”, bar: 2)
> a == a2 // false
> let b = B(baz: 3.1)
> let c = C(a: a, b: b)
> le c2 = C(a: a2, b: b)
> c == c2 // false
>
> You would always be free to shadow the provided implementation:
>
> extension A {
>   func ==(lhs: A, rhs: A) {
>     return lhs.foo == rhs.foo
>   }
> }
>
> a == a2 // true
>
> It’s up for debate whether this should apply to reference types, or
> Hashable, but at a bare minimum we should
> offer it for value types consisting of Equatable value types that
> explicitly declare but don’t implement the conformance.
>
> Thanks!
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