On Apr 26, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Tony Allevato via swift-evolution 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> That seems like a purely syntactic concern that could potentially be 
> addressed in other ways, though. I'm not sure the choice of "duplicate all 
> operators using verbosely-named methods" is the best one for the reasons I 
> mentioned above, and the question of "how do we cleanly unify operators with 
> other protocol requirements?" seems out-of-scope and orthogonal to this 
> proposal.

There is a strong motivation for this approach though: we want the type checker 
to be scalable.  John recently wrote an epic piece about why having tons of 
overloads is a really bad idea:
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160404/001650.html

It is *much* better for type checker performance to have (e.g.):

func +<T : FloatingPoint>(lhs : T, rhs : T) -> T { return lhs.add(rhs) }
func +<T : Integer>(lhs : T, rhs : T) -> T { return lhs.add(rhs) }

Rather than overloads for 4 floating point types, and 8+ integer types.   We 
really need to eliminate all the “expression too complex” classes of issues, 
and this is an important cause of them.

-Chris
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