<div dir="ltr">@Brent,<div><br></div><div>What aspects of the current proposal do you have reservations about?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">  -- Howard.<br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2017 at 18:09, Brent Royal-Gordon <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brent@architechies.com" target="_blank">brent@architechies.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 3, 2017, at 12:25 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_-5937248609723370074Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">I definitely agree that it&#39;s a feature that _can_ be used unwisely, but the fact remains that it _is_ used pervasively in the standard library, and deliberately</span></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></span><div>I&#39;m not so sure that&#39;s true. Which standard library protocols intentionally depend upon certain parts to not be overridable? Are they so pervasive that we wouldn&#39;t prefer to just mark those members that need it with a `final` keyword? If John McCall woke up tomorrow with some genius idea of how to make extension methods overridable with zero overhead, would we choose to keep the current design? </div><div><br></div><div>That&#39;s not to say the proposal at hand is a good idea, but I think you&#39;re overselling the current design.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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