[swift-dev] Starter project: Remove old mirrors

Joe Groff jgroff at apple.com
Mon Dec 7 14:24:03 CST 2015


> On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:21 PM, Jean-Pierre Simard <jp at jpsim.com> wrote:
> 
> > Note that I'm already working on this part. The Swift runtime needs to provide low-level reflection interfaces that allow the standard library to implement Mirror without depending on private runtime ABI.
> 
> That's great to hear! Is there any chance that this work could introduce type-level reflection APIs that would allow reflecting uninstantiated types? Or should I make a formal proposal for this functionality in swift-evolution?

You should propose any new functionality you'd like to see. Our first goal necessarily has to be to support the functionality that already exists.

-Joe


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