[swift-evolution] Proposal: Introduce User-defined "Dynamic Member Lookup" Types

[David Owens]

I like the proposal. I think it’s simple and straight forward and provides some really nice ergonomics for working with dynamic data.

I appreciate the option to change the names too.

If I understand it correctly, you could also call “add_trick” via:

dog.addTrick("Roll over");

And simply update the subscript implementation to provide additional name look-ups. Cool!

And I like that the DynamicCallable provides the next level that I want to make the API more “Swift-like” and make use of named parameters:

dog.add(trick: "Roll over");

Or maybe more appropriate:

dog.addTrick("Roll over”, favorite: true);

I didn’t look at the implementation details, but I think the overall approach. I’d like it better if we have provisions to create these types of tools outside of the compiler, but that’s another topic.

-David

> On Nov 26, 2017, at 10:04 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I’d like to formally propose the inclusion of user-defined dynamic member lookup types.
> 
> Here is my latest draft of the proposal:
> https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/768
> 
> An implementation of this design is available here:
> https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/13076
> 
> The implementation is straight-forward and (IMO) non-invasive in the compiler.
> 
> -Chris
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