[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0131: Add AnyHashable to the standard library

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Jul 23, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> The review of "SE-0131: Add AnyHashable to the standard library" begins now and runs through July 25.  This proposal is a bit unusual, since it is a late additive proposal.  The reason we need to do something here is as a critical part of "SE-0116: Import Objective-C id as Swift Any type”, enabling importing untyped NSDictionary's and NSSet’s properly.  The core team considers this already conceptually approved for Swift 3 as part of SE-0116, but would greatly appreciate feedback on the details of the proposed design.

Skipping the usual rigamarole:

Looks great, and quite aside from its use in bridged dictionaries, I'm sure users will happily abuse it for heterogeneous comparisons.

My only comment is this: Is the `base` property following some convention established by other type-erased wrappers? If not, I would suggest either `any`, `value`, or `wrapped`; `base` seems to suggest something like a base class, which is not what's going on here.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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