[swift-evolution] Synthesizing Equatable, Hashable, and Comparable for tuple types

[Vladimir.S]

On 27.11.2017 20:28, Joe Groff via swift-evolution wrote:
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>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org 
>> <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Kelvin Ma via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org 
>>> <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> when SE-185 <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0185-synthesize-equatable-hashable.md> 
>>> went through swift evolution, it was agreed that the next logical step 
>>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/swift-evolution@swift.org/msg26162.html> is synthesizing these conformances for tuple 
>>> types, though it was left out of the original proposal to avoid mission creep. I think now is the time to start 
>>> thinking about this. i’m also tacking on Comparable to the other two protocols because there is precedent in the 
>>> language from SE-15 
>>> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0015-tuple-comparison-operators.md> that tuple 
>>> comparison is something that makes sense to write.
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>>> EHC conformance is even more important for tuples than it is for structs because tuples effectively have no 
>>> workaround whereas in structs, you could just manually implement the conformance. 
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>> In my opinion, you’re approaching this from the wrong direction.  The fundamental problem here is that tuples can’t 
>> conform to a protocol.  If they could, synthesizing these conformances would be straight-forward.
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> It would be a tractable intermediate problem to introduce built-in conformances for tuples (and perhaps metatypes) to 
> Equatable/Hashable/Comparable without breaching the more general topic of allowing these types to have general protocol 
> conformances. I think that would cover the highest-value use cases.

So, shouldn't we do this first step ASAP and then design a good common solution to allow tuples/metatypes/funcs to 
confirm to custom protocols in some next version of Swift?
I really believe this is the good practical decision and will be supported by community if such proposal will be on the 
table.
Is there any drawback in such step?

Vladimir.

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