If you look at the implementation I provided, it allows for percentages higher 
than 100% (and has an easy way to clip them or map them to an arbitrary range).


> On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Dave DeLong via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:56 AM, Jon Gilbert via swift-evolution 
>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> No to this pitch, because a percentage can be higher than 100%.
> 
> ☝️ One need only look in Activity Monitor to see this in action.
> 
>> Use NumberFormatter to display a number as a percentage. 
>> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/numberformatter 
>> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/numberformatter>
> I agree 1000% 😉 
> 
>> Or you could make an NSNumber subclass if you want to enforce an arbitrary 
>> rule upon numbers.
> 
> In theory you can; in practice you can’t. Subclassing things like NSNumber is 
> fraught with undocumented peril.
> 
> Dave
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