Parameterized Extensions

[DevAndArtist (Adrian Meister)]

@jrose

generic parameters do not have their names in the mangling

Would that be any different if we had qualified lookup?

Allow Member Lookup to Find Generic Parameters

Hello dear Swift community, I waited with this pitch until the forum finally went live. Last year there were some topic regarding protocol nesting where this idea was born from. Mainly this idea is meant to disambigute similar named types, but there are also other areas where this aligned behavior would come to a benifit. Here a few snippets where I see this behavior as useful. // Future direction: class Generic<Element> { protocol P { // `Element` is not captured by P, but could allow the…