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

Letanyan Arumugam letanyan.a at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 05:28:26 CST 2017


> On 08 Dec 2017, at 10:04, Nick Keets <nick.keets at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think this distills the fears of some of the people that are against this proposal. To paraphrase, it is the fear that the dynamic type barbarians will come and pillage our villages.
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> I on the other hand would welcome this highly hypothetical sub community. I would also welcome an obfuscated swift sub community, a non-ascii names sub community and any other weird sub community. I mean, why not? They are not going to affect my code or the libraries I use. Why not let them exist? What's with the elitism?
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> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Letanyan Arumugam via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> Okay I’ll concede and hope that a sub community, who are forced to use Swift because of the success of this proposal and others to follow, doesn’t form creating their own separate design patterns and beliefs :)

Not trying to seem elite, I just think we should all grow together and benefit from each other (no massive difference in style and philosophies that makes it difficult to cooperate).
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