These types are often useless and confusing to users who expect to be able to use Sequence or Generator as types in their own right like in C# or Java. While we're here, relax the rules for self-conformance to admit methods returning 'Self'. Covariant return types should not actually prevent a protocol type from conforming to itself, and the stdlib makes particular use of protocols with 'init' requirements which implicitly return Self.
Swift SVN r18989
'Self' can be used within parameters whenever the corresponding
parameter in a subclass will be contravariant, and in result types
when the method returns dynamic Self. This also applies to subscript
indices. More of <rdar://problem/16996872>.
Swift SVN r18788
One difficulty in generating reasonable diagnostic data for type check failures has been the fact that many constraints had been synthesized without regard for where they were rooted in the program source. The result of this was that even though we would store failure information for specific constraints, we wouldn't emit it for lack of a source location. By making location data a non-optional component of constraints, we can begin diagnosing type check errors closer to their point of failure.
Swift SVN r18751
A protocol conformance of a class A to a protocol P can be inherited
by a subclass B of A unless
- A requirement of P refers to Self (not an associated type thereof)
in its signature,
+ *except* when Self is the result type of the method in P and the
corresponding witness for A's conformance to B is a DynamicSelf
method.
Remove the uses of DynamicSelf from the literal protocols, going back
to Self. The fact that the conformances of NSDictionary, NSArray,
NSString, etc. to the corresponding literal protocols use witnesses
that return DynamicSelf makes NSMutableDictionary, NSMutableArray,
NSMutableString, and other subclasses still conform to the
protocol. We also correctly reject attempts to (for example) create an
NSDecimalNumber from a numeric literal, because NSNumber doesn't
provide a suitable factory method by which any subclass can be literal
convertible.
Swift SVN r14204
As part of this, take away the poor attempt at recovering by adding an
explicit protocol conformance. The recovery mode isn't all that useful
in a system with only explicit conformance, and it messes with
diagnostics further down the line. We can bring it back later once
we're happy with explicit conformance checking.
Swift SVN r11503
There's a lot more work to do here, but start to categorize tests
along the lines of what a specification might look like, with
directories (chapters) for basic concepts, declarations, expressions,
statements, etc.
Swift SVN r9958
