Another +1 from me, a real pain

-- Howard.

> On 3 May 2017, at 4:05 am, David Sweeris via swift-users 
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 2, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Edward Connell via swift-users 
>> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone have an idea when this is going to be fixed? Or when support 
>> will be implemented?
>> My app heavily uses collections of heterogenous plug-ins, so it's a real 
>> pain in the neck to work around.
> 
> My understanding is that allowing protocols to conform to themselves would be 
> a *ton* of work. That’s not to say it’ll never happen, but the current 
> behavior isn’t considered a bug, and I don’t think the feature is likely to 
> happen without a proposal getting accepted on swift-evolution (it’s come up a 
> few times before… IIRC it’s always been shot down because something like 
> “yes, we’d all like it, but we only have so much time before the next release 
> and there’s some much lower-hanging fruit that we should work on first”).
> 
> Feel free to start another thread about it… it’d get a +1 from me. I’d almost 
> bet money though that it won’t happen until at least Swift 5 (unless it’s a 
> surprise at WWDC or something).
> 
> - Dave Sweeris
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