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

[Dave DeLong]

Awesome. The thread has gotten so long and forked that it’s hard to keep track of what has been asked and answered. I’ll check these out and get back if I have more questions.

Thanks! 🙇 

Dave

> On Dec 4, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:
> 
> It could work, but is a much worse approach IMO.  The proposal discusses it here:
> https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#motivation-and-context <https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#motivation-and-context>
> https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#direct-language-support-for-python-and-all-the-other-languages <https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#direct-language-support-for-python-and-all-the-other-languages>
> 
> Doug has been suggesting similar directions upthread, when he has a chance to respond to my questions, I’ll do a detailed comparison of the approaches.
> 
> -Chris
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Dave DeLong <swift at davedelong.com <mailto:swift at davedelong.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> We do the Swift integration with Objective-C via modules. Why wouldn’t that approach work with Python? Or if it would, why would we favor this dynamic member lookup over importing a Python API via a module?
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>>> On Nov 26, 2017, at 11:04 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto: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://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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