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> On Sep 24, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Drew Crawford via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is the #1 Swift feature I have wanted for the past 2 years.
> 
> One thing I would like to see (perhaps out of scope for this proposal) is the 
> natural extension for generic parameters:
> 
> struct Box<T> {
>     var t: T
> }
> 
> extension Box where T == Int { //error: Same-type requirement makes generic 
> parameter T non-generic
> }
> 
> There is a great deal of overlap between associated types and generic 
> parameters, and it seems to me that it would be favorable to allow `==` with 
> both generic parameter operands and associatedtype operands for consistency.

Yeah, we should allow this. I think it's in the generics manifesto as well, and 
Slava Pestov has been making great progress toward unblocking the feature. I do 
think it's a separate proposal. 

  - Doug

> 
> Drew
> 
>> On September 23, 2016 at 6:51:51 PM, Douglas Gregor ([email protected]) 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Swift community,
>> 
>> The review of SE-0142: "Permit where clauses to constrain associated types" 
>> begins now and runs through September 30, 2016. The proposal is available 
>> here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0142-associated-types-constraints.md
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