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From the Array struct inside Swift.SwiftInterface, I'm trying to find out why Swift passes the witness table for RangeReplacableCollection.

extension BidirectionalCollection where Self == Self.SubSequence {
  @discardableResult
  @inlinable mutating public func removeLast() -> Element {
    let element = last!
    self = self[startIndex..<index(before: endIndex)]
    return element
  }
}

From left to right it passes, the resut pointer, the type of the array, the witness table for BidirectionalCollection, the witness table for RangeReplaceableCollection and the Array itself.

I understand the "why" for most of these. However, how does the compiler decide RangeReplaceableCollection becomes part of this?

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The only reasoning I can come up with is that somehow, the body of the method influences what witness tables are passed, but that can't be true right?