> On Mar 2, 2017, at 06:22, Björn Forster via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Joe,
> I wanted to ask kindly if it would be possible that the core team adds to the
> rationale the design decision behind
> associatedtype Magnitude : Equatable, ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral
> being not comparable. It was pointed out by several reviewers that it is
> against all intuition that a scalar is not comparable and therefore pretty
> much useless.
>
> It would be great if you could add the thoughts of the core team regarding
> this to the rationale to document the reasons behind it.
(Obviously I'm not Joe, nor do I speak for anyone)
IIRC, that was discussed in the thread: It isn't required for any stdlib or
commonly used algorithms, and the constraint can easily be added to any code
that does need it.
func foo <T: Numeric> (x:T) where T.Magnitude: Comparable {...}
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