<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=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jun 27, 2016, at 13:13, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">There's an exception to everything. In this case, protocols used to<br class="">interface with the language at the lowest levels may be purely about<br class="">syntax.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Should we use a different word to declare such protocols?<br class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">syntax</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> IntegerLiteral { </span><font color="#008400" face="Menlo" class="">// where “syntax” is just the lowercase spelling of whatever we end up calling the namespace</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#008400" face="Menlo" class=""> </font><span style="color: rgb(0, 132, 0); font-family: Menlo;" class="">// everything from `IntegerLiteralConvertible` goes here</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">It would certainly help create the mental distinction between these “syntactic” protocols and "normal” protocols.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">- Dave Sweeris</span></div></body></html>