<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">This is the #1 Swift feature I have wanted for the past 2 years.</div><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><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">One thing I would like to see (perhaps out of scope for this proposal) is the natural extension for generic parameters:</div><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><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">struct Box<T> {</div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> var t: T</div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">}</div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">extension Box where T == Int { //error: Same-type requirement makes generic parameter T non-generic</div></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">}</div></div></blockquote> <div id="bloop_sign_1474745843745238016" class="bloop_sign"></div> <div><br></div><div>There is a great deal of overlap between associated types and generic parameters, and it seems to me that it would be favorable to allow `==` with both generic parameter operands and associatedtype operands for consistency.</div><div><br></div><div>Drew</div><br><p class="airmail_on">On September 23, 2016 at 6:51:51 PM, Douglas Gregor (<a href="mailto:dgregor@apple.com">dgregor@apple.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div></div><div>
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associated types" begins now and runs through September 30, 2016.
The proposal is available here:</p>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0142-associated-types-constraints.md" class=""><font color="#777777" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" size="3" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0142-associated-types-constraints.md</font></a></div>
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