[swift-evolution] Variadic generics discussion

L Mihalkovic laurent.mihalkovic at gmail.com
Tue May 31 14:17:01 CDT 2016


well there is no macro system, and for the moment a clear statement from chris that this is not on the table in the short term. the code in the example looked like run-of-the-mill swift, except for the “…". so that leaves us with swift looking code that would be executed by the compiler, but with nothing particular to tell which parts to and which not. just a thought.


> On May 31, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Austin Zheng <austinzheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How so? I'm interested in anything that can get us away from having to generating code at compile-time.
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:04 AM, L. Mihalkovic <laurent.mihalkovic at gmail.com <mailto:laurent.mihalkovic at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> What's interesting about the code in the manifesto is that it looks very much like "..." is a runtime construct, as opposed to trying the get the compiler to do the heavy lifting.
> 

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