<div dir="ltr"><div>> • What is your evaluation of the proposal?</div><div>-1. I would prefer something like mixins that could work without inheritance and would thus also work with value types.</div><div><br></div><div>> • Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?</div><div>Yes, although I don't think abstract classes that force inheritance and only work for classes is the answer.</div><div><br></div><div>> • Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?</div><div>No.</div><div><br></div><div>> • If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?</div><div>My opinion is based on other languages I've used that have better ways to handle this (Ruby, Python, D) as well as the downsides I've seen with abstract classes in Java and C++.<br></div><div><br></div><div>> • How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?</div><div>I've followed the various threads on this topic that have come up since Swift was open-sourced.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Антон Жилин <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My GMail keeps breaking threads. I wrote this in reply to this post of Matthew Johnson:<div><a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160222/011351.html" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160222/011351.html</a><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-28 19:50 GMT+03:00 Антон Жилин <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antonyzhilin@gmail.com" target="_blank">antonyzhilin@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It would be interesting to know your opinion on "mixins" proposal. Do you need some kind of "abstract classes for structs", perhaps with multiple inheritance, or you find that more elegant architectual solutions to problems can be found, without partially implemented constructs?<div><a href="https://gist.github.com/Anton3/f0550922c1be0fc5447c" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/Anton3/f0550922c1be0fc5447c</a><br></div></div>
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