[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] Error using programs in swift

[Ben Clifford]

> I *think* Swift should generate a compile-time type violation, but thats 
> perhaps not do-able at the moment for @func() primitives, which have 
> some type flexibility.

It probably should do so now - but at some point in the past, there was a 
lack of consensus about whether types that have an in-memory value (such 
as int) could be mapped too (maybe there still is).

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