<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 8, 2016, at 6:28 AM, Karl Wagner via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">It is in some sense a language limitation that we cant express what you're talking about. If we weren't using mailing lists it would be easier to search for "protocol self-conformance" on swift-evo and to read the earlier discussion about it. </span><br style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><sidetrack><br class=""><div class="">…or if we were using some modern mailing list host like Google Groups or <a href="http://groups.io" class="">groups.io</a>, that also offers a web view.</div><div class=""></sidetrack></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>