> Am 18.07.2016 um 14:01 schrieb Johannes Neubauer via swift-evolution 
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>> Am 18.07.2016 um 13:52 schrieb Johannes Neubauer via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]>:
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>>> Am 18.07.2016 um 13:05 schrieb L. Mihalkovic <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> IMHO implementing your proposal would close the door on some of the things 
>>> you do when building in-memory dbs (T == U -> TRUE for T not related to U), 
>>> which if swift remains for small apps is not a terrible loss, but may be 
>>> more of an issue for one day doing big-data with it.
>> 
>> You talk about reference types now, right? I proposed a `default` keyword, 
>> which (in a pattern matching fashion) would catch all calls to T == U for 
>> which no implementation exists (so this is exactly when T != U). You could 
>> of course change for a given type hierarchy the `default` result to `true` 
>> if appropriate.
> 
> This formulation can be misleading: I mean `a == b` where `a: T` and `b: U` 
> and `T != U`. Due to dynamic dispatch even: `a.dynamicType == T && 
> b.dynamicType == U && T != U`.

But I think, for such a radical different semantic than the normal 
interpretation of equality I think I wouldn’t use the `Equatable`-protocol at 
all, but implement a custom protocol with a custom operator.

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