As to the why question: (just guessing here) By the time the compiler want to know what type will be in the array, it cannot do so. The enum is a generic and thus without full type information (it only has partial type information).
Regards, Rien Site: http://balancingrock.nl Blog: http://swiftrien.blogspot.com Github: http://github.com/Swiftrien Project: http://swiftfire.nl > On 29 Dec 2016, at 00:41, Brandon Knope via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > I don’t understand why this is a problem > > protocol Element { > > } > > enum ElementNode<T: Element> { > case element(T) > case empty > } > > var childElements = [ElementNode<Element>]() > > I need to represent an array of my nodes that could be multiple kinds of > elements > > Is there a workaround? > > Brandon > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
