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

[Vladimir.S]

I believe we just have to separate these concepts explicity : i.e. 
"dynamicType" and "Self"(as replacement for type name in protocol)

Yes, seems like we need Self and #Self to separate these. Or we should 
select a better names, if we have better suggestions.

On 20.04.2016 23:27, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution wrote:
>
>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> on Wed Apr 20 2016, Chris Lattner <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Swift community,
>>>
>>> The review of "SE-0068: Expanding Swift Self to class members and value types"
>>> begins now and runs through April 25. The proposal is available here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0068-universal-self.md
>>
>> Caveat: somewhat scattered response, probably after insufficient
>> review; apply salt liberally.
>>
>> This looks like a good idea overall to me, but I think it may leave
>> important uses for Self on the floor.  For example, I still want to
>> write this:
>>
>>  struct SomeType {
>>    func f(x: Self) {}
>>  }
>>
>> Does the proposal make that work in some way that I've overlooked?
>>
>> IMO it's a shame that you can't take a protocol body, dump it into your
>> type's body, and fill in the implementations to satisfy a conformance
>> without finding all the instances of “Self” and replacing them with your
>> type's name, and it would be sad if this proposal didn't address that
>> somehow.  In general, I'm concerned that we may be making “Self” mean
>> two very different things in different contexts: IIUC one is a type
>> that's fully-resolved at compile time, and the other one is a value that
>> holds a metatype.  If there were less of a wall between the two
>> uses/contexts, that would make the proposal more palatable to me.
>
> 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.
>
> -- E
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