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I just was toying around with generic types and protocols that would 'fake' qualified lookup and stumbled accidentally upon this issue which felt odd to me.

protocol Test {
 associatedtype Foo
}

struct Generic<Foo, Bar> {}
extension Generic Test where Foo == Bar {}
print(type(of: Generic<String, Int>.Foo.self)) // compiles and prints `String.Type`

I think this shouldn't even compile, no? I've tested it in Swift 4.1 and with 4.2 (wwdc Xcode 10 beta).

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This does look like a bug. Do you want to file it?

A slightly small (and more "exciting") version is:

protocol Test {
    associatedtype Foo
}

struct Generic<Foo> {}
extension Generic: Test where Foo == Int {}
print(Generic<String>.Foo.self)

It prints Int!

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Uff that was is even more scary. I‘ll file those.

Edit: SR-7976

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Thanks!

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