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> On May 22, 2016, at 1:49 AM, Vladimir.S via swift-evolution 
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>> On 22.05.2016 3:01, L. Mihalkovic via swift-evolution wrote:
>> Read the proposal... I have an aversion to-go coffee cups that remind
>> people that hot coffee may burn them, and when my daughter was 4 we
>> explained to her why knives were to be handled with care, rather than
>> remove them all from her sight. IMHO the proposal evoques mandating
>> training wheels rather than letting people learn naturally from their
>> errors.
> 
> I can partially support this opinion. But we have a situation with protocol 
> extension methods and static dispatches in which we need Swift's help on 
> compilation stage. IMO Using your words, right now we just got knife in our 
> hands *without* any explanation. Then we hurt ourselves, and *then* we know 
> that such methods will be dispatched statically(and the rule of dispatch is 
> quite non-obvious). This is another extreme like "remove all knives". We need 
> some golden middle. Personally I believe the solution is in compiler warning 
> and in some method to 'fix' this warning.

Why not just make it an error and require an annotation on the extension 
methods?

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