<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="">Yeah, I’ve been wondering if there’d ever be a way to convert something <i class="">into</i> a *Literal… I can’t think of why, other than as a way to cast between types which are both “ExpressibleAs*Literal", but then the protocol would have to be strengthened to indicate that the conversion had to be lossless.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Dave Sweeris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Adrian Zubarev 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 class="bloop_markdown" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p style="margin: 15px 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">The only problem I can see with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">ExpressibleAs</code><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is that it also reads if I could potentially do something like this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;" class="">type <-> literal</code>, but the direction<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;" class="">type -> literal</code><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is impossible.</p><div style="margin: 15px 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="bloop_original_html" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div id="bloop_sign_1467409041975321088" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 13px;" class="">-- <br class="">Adrian Zubarev<br class="">Sent with Airmail</div></div><br class=""><p class="airmail_on" style="margin: 15px 0px;">Am 1. Juli 2016 um 23:33:19, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution (<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>) schrieb:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">> On Jul 1, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution<br class="">> <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">>> I think if `Syntax.IntegerLiteral` is actually unclear then the best<br class="">>> cure is `ExpressibleAsIntegerLiteral` (no namespace needed). None of<br class="">>> the other suggestions I've seen describe what the protocol means as well<br class="">>> as that. I've asked Matthew to update the proposal accordingly.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> I also like `ExpressibleAsIntegerLiteral`. It uses the ~ible/~able<br class="">> convention which suggests a capability, and when the name is worded<br class="">> like this, it is definitely describing a capability of the type.<br class=""><br class="">I like it quite a bit as well. It’s the best name anyone has suggested.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I have updated the proposal to reflect this decision. 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