[swift-users] Swift Initializer Generics

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Tyler Fleming Cloutier via
swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> Is there no way to get this done with generics? Writing the function with
> generic parameters yields the following error:
>
> func normalized<T where T: FloatingPointType, T: FloatLiteralConvertible>(x:
> [T]) -> [T] {
>     return x / sum(x) // Error: Cannot invoke 'sum' with an argument list of
> type '([T])'
> }

Fixing this essentially requires a redesign of Surge to be centered
around protocols, I think.  You would need to make sure that every
entry point that is implemented differently for Floats and Doubles is
called through a protocol requirement.

Dmitri

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