[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Introduce user-defined dynamically "callable" types

[Gwendal Roué]

> Le 11 nov. 2017 à 16:48, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> That'd be great, but Swift violates Gilad Bracha's golden rule by having static overloading, and throws bidirectional type inference on top, so our static name resolution can't be treated as a specialization of a dynamic name lookup mechanism in all cases.

I didn't know of Gilad Bracha, so you made me curious. 

I guess that the "golden rule" you refer to is here, for anyone curious: https://gbracha.blogspot.fr/2009/09/systemic-overload.html <https://gbracha.blogspot.fr/2009/09/systemic-overload.html>

Gwendal Roué

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