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Re:Static Types in SwiftUI by favorited on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:03PM (#21458328)
It's because of Body's type:

    public struct EmptyView: View {
        @inlinable public init()
        public typealias Body = Never
    }
Because Body is Never, you can't access EmptyView's body property.
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Re:Static Types in SwiftUI by Razengan on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:50PM (#21458652)
Can we write a protocol + type like that?

https://forums.swift.org/t/how-do-views-like-emptyview-confo...

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Re:Static Types in SwiftUI by favorited on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:25PM (#21458852)
I don't see why not. When I trick it into calling `body` on an EmptyView, I get this runtime failure:

> Thread 1: Fatal error: body() should not be called on EmptyView.

So I don't think the implementation is doing anything beyond the fatalError() call from that forum thread. At least not at this point in time.

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