I did see that point made earlier in the thread, but I’m not convinced that 
design for googleability is the right ordering of priorities.  I think people 
will probably figure out that they need to search for “swift protocol type” or 
whatever the final choice ends up being.

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 20:54, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I don’t see any problem in referring to the feature as associated types, but 
>> then having the syntax be just plain “type”.
> 
> I think it's been said before, but the problem with using a `type` keyword is 
> that if you type "swift type" into Google (or any other search feature you 
> might use for documentation), you're probably not going to get information 
> about this feature specifically. "swift associated" or "swift associatedtype" 
> are more likely to give you what you want.
> 
> -- 
> Brent Royal-Gordon
> Architechies
> 

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