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(inspired by #7987)

  • canonical type
  • sugared type
  • generic environment
  • generic signature

- canonical type
- sugared type
- generic environment
- generic signature
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@DougGregor, @slavapestov, feel free to improve/elaborate

@swift-ci Please smoke test and merge

generic environment
Provides context for interpreting a type that may have generic parameters
in it. Generic parameter types are normally just represented as "first
generic parameter in the outermost context" (or similar), so it's up to the
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You use the phrase "outermost context" without defining it. You should be more explicit.

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We should look into changing this into a MD file or something representable on github. it is unfortunate that it can not be seen via a browser on github. = /.

@swift-ci swift-ci merged commit 179424f into swiftlang:master Mar 10, 2017
@jrose-apple jrose-apple deleted the generic-lexicon branch March 10, 2017 18:46
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Yeah. Vanilla Markdown doesn't have a "definition list" format, but even just using a regular list with a bit of boilerplate would at least be presentable.

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