Empty initializer protocol

[Letan (Letanyan Arumugam)]

Here's the old thread about this, the consensus seemed to be that it was not important enough to include.

For a workaround @allevato had a nice solution. If I may point you to it:

[Pitch] Add the DefaultConstructible protocol to the standard library

Tony, could you, please, share your approaches? Maybe it will open the door to finding an easy solution to the issue. ...and I'll tell you what it is since I fat-fingered the send button too soon. :) There have been a couple times where I've written code that needed to generically serve instances of a type T, and in each of those cases—thanks to Swift's support for first-class functions and initializers-as-functions—I found it to be cleaner to have my factory take a () -> T as a parame…