Hi there,

>From my current perspective, my draft is way to0 outdated and ugly. :D And I 
>myself will be very busy in the next two month, so please don’t count on me 
>for now.

But I will follow the topic and write some feedback as good as I only can.



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Adrian Zubarev
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Am 18. Januar 2017 um 17:41:11, Austin Zheng ([email protected]) schrieb:

I probably won't have time, unfortunately. I think Adrian Zubarev (cc'ed) had a 
draft for this proposal at some point, so you might want to work with him.

Austin

On Jan 17, 2017, at 11:48 PM, David Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

Austin? Do you want/have time to split out the Superclass + Protocol proposal? 
If not, I can do it. Let me know.
David.

On 18 Jan 2017, at 00:27, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:


On Jan 10, 2017, at 10:21 PM, David Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

What do you think I should do then? Start an official proposal for Superclass + 
Protocol because that’s all we can afford to have for Swift 4 or bug Austin to 
resubmit his full proposal?

I think it makes sense to split out the more-Swift-4-critical Superclass + 
Protocol bit, because it affects the import of Objective-C APIs in a manner 
that breaks source code. Reading the tea leaves, I can’t imagine having time to 
implement the full generalized-extensions proposal in Swift 4.

- Doug


David.

On 11 Jan 2017, at 00:09, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:


On Jan 8, 2017, at 8:21 AM, David Hart <[email protected]> wrote:


On 8 Jan 2017, at 06:17, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution 
<[email protected]> wrote:



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On Jan 6, 2017, at 11:04 PM, Russ Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:


On Jan 4, 2017, at 8:48 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution 
<[email protected]> wrote:



Would love to see this come forward into discussion.

Yeah. I'm less sure about the other enhancements to existentials fitting into 
Swift 4, e.g., the creation of existentials for protocols with associated 
types. Although important, it's a big feature that will take a bunch of design 
and implementation time, and I'm leery of accepting something that we might not 
actually be able to achieve. 

- Doug

By this are you referring to generalized existentials?

Yes. I actually prefer the term "generalized existentials".

If so I’ll say this is such a constant pain point and perverts so many API 
designs… not to mention vomiting AnyXYZ type-erased wrappers everywhere… In my 
completely non-authoritative personal opinion we shouldn’t ship Swift 4 without 
it :)

To be absolutely clear, I think this is an extremely important feature. It's 
also a significant undertaking in both design and implementation. 

Hasn't most of the design work already been done by Austin and all those 
participating back then? What is missing? How much of the original proposal is 
possible to implement in the Swift 4 (on top of Superclass + Protocol)? Just 
want some hints on how to drive this so we can get as much of generalized 
existentials for Swift 4.

Yes, that’s fair: the proposal is in excellent shape, and I (personally) agree 
with most (maybe all) of the design decisions in it.

- Doug





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