<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=""><div class="">This comes up often enough that we should probably write it somewhere, but we don't have this protocol for the simple reason that there are very few algorithms that are correct for both integers and floating-point numbers. Even something as simple as "average" needs to be handled differently.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:04 , Ross O'Brien 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="">Your pointing to two mutually exclusive protocols proves the point. If I want to write a generic function for a numerical type which can be added, I can't just require that the type conforms to IntegerArithmeticType because that excludes all the floating point types. Protocols for various numerical functions, e.g. NumericalArithmeticType, would be handy,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Joanna Carter via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br class="">
> It’s inconvenient that structs can’t inherit, and so things like Int and Double aren’t known as numbers. Should there be a Number protocol that encompasses all things number-like?<br class="">
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</span>Taje a look at the IntegerType and FloatingPointType<br class="">
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