<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 12, 2016, at 1:49 PM, <a href="mailto:davesweeris@mac.com" class="">davesweeris@mac.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 8, 2016, at 02:42, Tino Heth <<a href="mailto:2th@gmx.de" class="">2th@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Those are both on the todo list, though, aren’t they?</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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></blockquote>I can't prove you wrong, but do you have evidence?</div><div class="">(that would be great - non-type template arguments are definitely on my to-propose list ;-)</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Depends on what you mean by “evidence”. I’ve been trying to remember what I was thinking of when I wrote that, and I *think* it was the word “when” (as opposed to “if”) in one of Dave Abrahams’s earlier posts in this thread:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">On Dec 31, 2015, at 09:25, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Medium; font-size: 15px;" class="">If Swift would support non-type generic parameters, then I would like to have Boost.Unit library (</span><a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/boost_units.html" class="" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Medium; font-size: 15px;">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/boost_units.html</a><span style="font-family: AvenirNext-Medium; font-size: 15px;" class="">) available in Swift.</span></div></blockquote>Yes, that’s an excellent design. We really want to do this <b class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">when</font></b> we get the necessary language features (I hope we might also come up with some that improve readability a bit over what you can do in C++).</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So… do you have any thoughts on the matter, Dave? :-)</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>We don’t comment on future plans, sorry. I was expressing an overly confident view of the future.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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