<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 25, 2017, at 3:16 PM, Chris Lattner 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="" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Just to talk to myself a bit here, but I’ve come to realize that the right design really is to have a simple empty marker protocol like this:</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>If you're reaching this point. why have a marker protocol at all? Why not treat `subscript(dynamicMember:)` specially on any type that has it, or have an `@dynamicMember subscript(_:)` attribute, or introduce an entire new `dynamicMember(_:)` declaration?</div><br class=""><div class="">
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