Typo in the Opaque Types section of The Swift Programming Language book

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I think there's a typo in the language guide and I'm not sure where the best place to report it is. The sentence "For example, here’s a version of flip(_:) that returns a value of protocol type instead of using an opaque return type" should I believe instead say "of a protocol type."

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/OpaqueTypes.html#ID615

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Also on the same page I think there's a typo in a sentence toward the end "You also can’t use it as constraint a generic return type because there isn’t enough information outside the function body to infer what the generic type needs to be."

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I'll forward this feedback along to the authors of that material. Thank you!

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Thanks for pointing these out! I've fixed them for the next version of the book.

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I think that one is correct as written. The function returns a value of protocol type.

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I didn't make the exact change @Austin_Conlon suggested — I'm replacing it with:

For example, here's a version of flip(_:) that uses a protocol type as its return type instead of an opaque return type:

The phrase "a value of protocol type", although correct, can be a little hard to parse.

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