+1.  It seems like a practical first step.

> On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Vladimir.S <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 27.11.2017 20:28, Joe Groff via swift-evolution wrote:
>>>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Kelvin Ma via swift-evolution 
>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> when SE-185 
>>>>> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0185-synthesize-equatable-hashable.md>
>>>>>  went through swift evolution, it was agreed that the next logical step 
>>>>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26162.html> is 
>>>>> synthesizing these conformances for tuple types, though it was left out 
>>>>> of the original proposal to avoid mission creep. I think now is the time 
>>>>> to start thinking about this. i’m also tacking on Comparable to the other 
>>>>> two protocols because there is precedent in the language from SE-15 
>>>>> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0015-tuple-comparison-operators.md>
>>>>>  that tuple comparison is something that makes sense to write.
>>>>> 
>>>>> EHC conformance is even more important for tuples than it is for structs 
>>>>> because tuples effectively have no workaround whereas in structs, you 
>>>>> could just manually implement the conformance. 
>>>> 
>>>> In my opinion, you’re approaching this from the wrong direction.  The 
>>>> fundamental problem here is that tuples can’t conform to a protocol.  If 
>>>> they could, synthesizing these conformances would be straight-forward.
>>> It would be a tractable intermediate problem to introduce built-in 
>>> conformances for tuples (and perhaps metatypes) to 
>>> Equatable/Hashable/Comparable without breaching the more general topic of 
>>> allowing these types to have general protocol conformances. I think that 
>>> would cover the highest-value use cases.
>> 
>> So, shouldn't we do this first step ASAP and then design a good common 
>> solution to allow tuples/metatypes/funcs to confirm to custom protocols in 
>> some next version of Swift?
>> I really believe this is the good practical decision and will be supported 
>> by community if such proposal will be on the table.
>> Is there any drawback in such step?
> 
> The expected behavior of tuple Equatable/Hashable/Comparable seems obvious to 
> me (though I could well be missing something), and any behavior we hardcode 
> should be naturally replaceable by a generalized conformance mechanism, so 
> it's primarily a "small matter of implementation". There would be some 
> implementation cost to managing the special case in the compiler and runtime; 
> the tradeoff seems worth it to me in this case, but others might reasonably 
> disagree. Not speaking for the entire core team, I would personally support 
> considering a proposal and implementation for builtin tuple 
> Equatable/Hashable/Comparable conformance.
> 
> -Joe
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