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I tried practicing using it. but I couldn't figure any use case.

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Go experiment with SwiftUI, and disallow yourself from using it. This will be the best teacher.

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You can see another use case in Vapor's Redis library.

In this method, we can only ever return the exact same type - a generic RedisSessionDriver using the concrete type of RedisSessionsDelegate passed into the method - so we can use the some keyword to keep all of this type information with the compiler.

This provides 2 primary benefits:

  1. This return value can be passed to generic methods that accept SessionDriver arguments
    eg. func load<Driver: SessionDriver>(_ driver: Driver)
  2. Using the return type avoid performance overhead of using it as an existential, however minor it could be. (static dispatch vs dynamic dispatch)
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what i feel is hide away the real type on purpose.