[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Rename Mirror

[Leonardo Pessoa]

I also don't think this is a worthy change. Mirror can be extended or
even changed in the future to become a true reflection base class. No
benefits added and breaking code are to me a reason to not go forward
with this.

L


On 21 July 2016 at 22:05, Anton Zhilin via swift-evolution
<swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> Somehow I did not send a copy to evolution the first time:
>
> I have to agree. Stopping the discussion on this until after Swift 3.
>
> And response from Dmitri:
>
> Thanks!
>
> Just wanted to be clear -- I am not against reflection.  And I am
> concerned whether the current design of Mirror will work for the
> long-term full-featured reflection implementation, but only because we
> don't know what will be the shape of reflection in Swift.  For
> example, would we be able to call arbitrary public functions on a type
> by name?  If yes, how would that be implemented -- both in the API,
> and on the low level, how would actual function call and argument
> passing work?  How much extra metadata and thunks would the compiler
> need to emit?  Would an average app or framework want that bloat?
> Remember that we don't have a JIT, so we can't say "we will do what
> Java (or any other mainstream language with reflection) does", because
> we can't.
>
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