<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="">The numeric protocols were not really designed; their main purpose is currently to facilitate some very weak code sharing in the standard library. We’re currently working on fixing that, though, as I noted in other messages.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 6, 2016, at 3:00 PM, James Campbell 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 dir="ltr" class="">What is the purpose of this type ? Why don't we have
<p class=""><span class="">UnsignedNumberType</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px" class=""></span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> Wizard</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:james@supmenow.com" target="_blank" class="">james@supmenow.com</a></div><div class="">+44 7523 279 698</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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