[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Reducing the bridging magic in dynamic casts

[Charles Srstka]

> On May 6, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> The ugly NSError pattern could be rewritten and migrated to:
> 
> do {
>    try something()
> } catch let error {
>    handle(error `bridge` NSError)
> }
> 
> Is such a change complicated, what do you think?

I’ve made a pitch, "Consistent bridging for NSErrors at the language boundary”, which I believe would not only eliminate the need for “as” to contain bridging magic, but is also much less ugly than either the current pattern or the example above.

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Charles

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