<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Some criticism for all the mentioned variants:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">enum Something : raw(Int32)</code><br>Requires adding a new contextual keyword.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">enum Something : RawRepresentable</code><br>With additional <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">typealias RawValue</code>, the simplest cases will lose their elegancy.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">enum Something : RawRepresentable<Int32></code><br>+1. But we don’t have generic protocols right now :(</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">enum Something<Int32></code><br>-1. This way we would just trade overloading conformance syntax for overloading generics syntax.</p>
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