Great to hear that there is a fix on the way.<br><br>On Thursday, 7 January 2016, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 6, 2016, at 3:00 PM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">What is the purpose of this type ? Why don't we have
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