<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I thought constraining an extension to a single type (#1) was already in 2.2?<div class="">I've seen it in a SPM example and also someone confirmed to me that it compiled</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It went like</div><div class="">extension Array where Element == Double { // add stuff }</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Dec 2015, at 12:14, Krzysztof Siejkowski via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Concerning extension constraining, it’s already doable with:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">```</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">protocol DoubleProtocol {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">extension Double : DoubleProtocol {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">extension Array where Element : DoubleProtocol {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""> func onlyForDoubles() -> String {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""> return "hello doubles!"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""> }</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">[1.2].onlyForDoubles() // „hello doubles!”</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">["a"].onlyForDoubles() // error: type of expression is ambiguous without more context</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">```</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">However, I personally like the idea of making a syntactic sugar for that case.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">All the best,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">Krzysztof</div></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div id="bloop_sign_1449489930156427776" class="bloop_sign" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><p class="airmail_on" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On 7 December 2015 at 13:01:11, Krzysztof Siejkowski (<a href="mailto:krzysztof@siejkowski.net" class="">krzysztof@siejkowski.net</a>) wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;" class="">Concerning generic typealiases, the topic is already being discussed in „Generic `typealias`s” thread: <a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/2015-December/000132.html" class="">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/2015-December/000132.html</a>. The core Swift team approves:</div><div id="bloop_sign_1449489099373719808" class="bloop_sign"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Yes, this is
definitely something that I (at least) would like to see. Patches
welcome :-)</span></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">> Chris (Lattner)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;" class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Krzysztof</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><p class="airmail_on">On 7 December 2015 at 12:41:05, Tuur Anton via swift-evolution (<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>) wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="">Can you please add these features in Swift 3?</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">1. 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