[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0068: Expanding Swift Self to class members and value types

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Wed Apr 20 18:42:25 CDT 2016


On Apr 20, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
> 
> It kind of did address this until late last night. I was worried that proposing #Self and Self at the
> same time would be divisive. The point of #Self would be a compile-time replacement of the name
> of the defining type, vs the run-time evaluation of Self. Trying to propose two things at once 
> seemed like a difficult sell.
> 
> If there's sufficient support for doing so, I can add it back in as a revision to the proposal if
> the core team requests it.

The core team discussed this briefly today, and has several concerns with the direction of the proposal.  Alex will be sending out notes in a bit.

-Chris



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