Automatic Protocol forwarding

[anon9791410]

I hadn’t seen any of this before—seems like the same idea:

What is intended for using Heap with non-comparable values?

. I realized that the concept of what's going on here can be generalized. While a heap shouldn't need to rely on Equatable, maybe it's fine if it does, anyway. The "nonconformer" is already being thrown out when it comes to < —why not extend that to ==? The ElementValuePair is only useful as a unit within Heap; it will always be broken apart externally. It's not really semantically Comparable, even without checking for equality. The language provides no mechanism to delegate …