Can you give me a specific example of where this approach fails for you?

-- E


> On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure that I'm entirely happy with this distinction between already 
> compiled types and ones that have not yet been compiled. It's a common Swift 
> idiom to implement protocol requirements in extensions, which encourages a 
> kind of modularity, if you will. Every so often (and maybe this isn't best 
> practice), I incorporate third-party code into a project in source form and 
> not as a compiled library (with attribution, and in compliance with the 
> license, etc., obviously). Often these are little snippets, perhaps useful 
> helper functions or types. The beauty of extensions is that I can extend 
> these as necessary without touching the original code. The point is, here one 
> would not be able to implement certain things in that way if this proposal is 
> adopted. To say that the workaround is just editing the original code is 
> deeply unsatisfying, because it would be equally valid to say that the same 
> workaround applies to stripping out extensions altogether for non-imported 
> types.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> It is a good idea to explicitly document the behaviour that this requirement 
> for override is a compile time check only and does not mean that already 
> compiled code has to be recompiled to allow a protocol to be retroactively 
> fitted to an already compiled type.
> 
> 
> On Friday, 29 April 2016, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Apr 28, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Erica Sadun <[email protected] <>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Matthew Johnson <[email protected] <>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> We can't add the keywords if the structs are defined in a module we import 
>>> but don't own.  We are only declaring the conformance retroactively.  The 
>>> ability to do this is a crucial aspect of generic programming.  It isn't 
>>> yet clear how your proposal handles retroactive modeling.
>> 
>> These are compile-time checks and should not affect compiled code.
> 
> Does that mean the conformance declaration will be accepted by the compiler 
> under your proposal?  I would really like to see this called out explicitly 
> in the proposal.
> 
>> 
>> -- E
>> 
> 
> 
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> -- Howard.
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