Universal Equatability, Hashability, and Comparability

I would like to have the option to override the compiler-provided equality etc.
For example, exclude one field from the definition of equality.
It would be nice if the default implementation would be available inside the definition of a custom implementation so you can base your custom implementation on that.

Jan E.

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On May 24, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Tony Allevato wrote:

On the one hand, getting the conformance implicitly matches how
RawRepresentable is already treated, and makes getting the conformance zero
effort. On the other hand, it makes error handling trickier: if you add a
non-Equatable/non-Hashable field or associated value to a struct/enum, all
of your call sites break. (I guess they would even if you declared the
conformance, but at least there you'd also get the "Type does not conform
to Equatable/Hashable" error at the struct/enum itself, and the compiler
could even potentially flag the offending field/associated value that's
causing the conformance to fail.) Thoughts?

Absolutely—I would expect that if the user provided their own
implementation of `==` for a particular type, it would override (rather,
suppress) the compiler-provided one; the same for hashValue.

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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM Jan E. Schotsman via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

On May 24, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Tony Allevato wrote:

On the one hand, getting the conformance implicitly matches how
RawRepresentable is already treated, and makes getting the conformance zero
effort. On the other hand, it makes error handling trickier: if you add a
non-Equatable/non-Hashable field or associated value to a struct/enum, all
of your call sites break. (I guess they would even if you declared the
conformance, but at least there you'd also get the "Type does not conform
to Equatable/Hashable" error at the struct/enum itself, and the compiler
could even potentially flag the offending field/associated value that's
causing the conformance to fail.) Thoughts?

I would like to have the option to override the compiler-provided equality
etc.
For example, exclude one field from the definition of equality.
It would be nice if the default implementation would be available inside
the definition of a custom implementation so you can base your custom
implementation on that.

Jan E.

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