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by llmslave2 162 days ago
This is just cope. Swift's compiler doesn't choke because your logic is too ambiguous, it chokes because it's simply too slow at inferring types in certain cases, including a very common case where you write a normal Swift UI view. There is nothing ambiguous about that.

Secondly, I'm not sure why you think the mountains of boilerplate to replace | leads to semantic meaning. The type identifier itself is sufficient.

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| is a massive footgun because it's usually exclusive in practice and occasionally silently inclusive. Having it in a language is a mistake, even if it superficially seems to make things easier, just like e.g. null.