Well it just doesn't help with collisions it helps with signature changes in a protocol going missed in conformers in a much more reliable way.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:11 AM Martin Waitz via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 2016-09-27 16:51, schrieb Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution: > > The cases where you find these kinds of exact collisions are so rare > > (never in my career) that it's fine if some manual work is needed. > > I agree that such accidental collisions are quite rare (especially with > the Swift way of naming methods which makes it quite easy to describe > the semantics of the function). > > However, I draw some other conclusion from it: I don't see why I should > have to explicitly name the protocol in my methods. The method name is > enough already to match it to the protocol. > > We shouldn't complicate our language just for obscure cases where > protocols accidentally collide. > > -- > Martin > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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