[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Seal `T.Type` into `Type<T>`

[Adrian Zubarev]

I’m glad Brent could reach out to you what I tried so hard. :)

I’ve been working on non-string VFL (Visual Format Language) for iOS Autolayout constraints.

Formula.Horizontal << |-view.size(==20)-(constant: 0, option: .Center)-otherView-| << [.AlignAllTop, .AlignAllBottom]

Something like this is only made possible with some custom operators and metatype magic for api design. (Project is not finished yet.)

I’ll come back to size etc. later when I found some time to dig into that issue.

_uniqueIdentifier is used to identify the right metatype which is downcasted to Any in _underlyingMetatype. It also reduces the amount of recalculations of that value from the hashValue property. Besides that the implementation of hashValue might change one day!?



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Am 15. Juli 2016 um 11:28:24, Anton Zhilin (antonyzhilin at gmail.com) schrieb:

I finally could understand what metatypes can do and Type<T> cannot, namely dynamic dispatch of static/class methods.
If that usage is important enough, then I'm for leaving (sealed) T.Typebecause of that feature.
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