<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Inventing all these oneOf<> AllOf<> feel like an incomplete algebra that only exist because of a fixation on cramming everything inside the Any<> box.<br><br></div><div>What are they? How will they be described in Swift programming manuals? Pseudo protocols? Protocols? Then what will their .Type be?</div><div><br></div><div><div>I'm sorry, I cannot see where this is all going.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div>On May 26, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style>
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.error { color:#AA0000; }</style><div class="bloop_markdown"><p>I’m not against <code>Any<…></code> or something, I just wanted to throw this in the room because I’ve seen someone being confused about what <code>Any<…></code> might mean. The generic manifesto has a nice wordplay that explains the true meaning: <em>“<strong>Any</strong> type that conforms to … (all constraints) … .”</em></p>
<p>But someone might still think that this type awaits <em>any</em> type from within the angle brackets (something like <code>oneOf<A, B></code>).</p>
<p></p></div><div class="bloop_original_html"><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1464282984163623936" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">Am 26. Mai 2016 bei 19:15:19, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution (<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>) schrieb:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div><br>on Thu May 26 2016, Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>> There is great feedback going on here. I'd like to consider a few things here:<br>><br>> * What if we name the whole thing `Existential<>` to sort out all<br>> confusion?<br><br>Some of us believe that “existential” is way too theoretical a word to<br>force into the official lexicon of Swift. I think “Any<...>” is much<br>more conceptually accessible.<br><br>> <br>> This would allow `typealias Any = Existential<>`. * Should<br>> `protocol A: Any<class>` replace `protocol A: class`? Or at least<br>> deprecate it. * Do we need `typealias AnyClass = Any<class>` or do we<br>> want to use any class requirement existential directly? If second, we<br>> will need to allow direct existential usage on protocols (right now we<br>> only can use typealiases as a worksround).<br><br>-- <br>Dave<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>swift-evolution mailing list<br><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div class="bloop_markdown"><p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-evolution mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>