[swift-evolution] Why couldn't a class call any of its superclass' initializers?

[Benjamin Spratling]

It prevents accidental infinite loops of inits, which is possible in Obj-C.

> On Jul 26, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Daryle Walker via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> [Sorry if this's been discussed before.]
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> As long as the superclass sub-object gets initialized, it shouldn't matter if the initializer was designated or convenience. Is there some subtle step on the two-phase initialization I'm missing? Or is this a point to extend in a future version of Swift?
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