<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Doug,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Given a struct like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">struct MyStruct {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> func sampleMethod(arg1:String, arg2: Int) -> String {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> return "Hello"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> }</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> func sampleMethod(arg1:String, arg2: Int) -> Int {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> return 42</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> }</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would this force the following?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">let myStruct = MyStruct()</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">let myStructFn1: (String, Int) -> String = myStruct.sampleMethod(_:arg2:)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">let myStructFn2: (String, Int) -> Int = myStruct.sampleMethod(_:arg2:)</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">—David</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2016, at 1:50 AM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 13, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Nathan de Vries via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Hi Joe,</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Do you have a plan for selecting between class and instance methods with the same name?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excellent question! Swift’s overload resolution has some built-in preferences for picking static methods when referencing based on a metatype and for picking instance methods when referencing based on an instance, e.g.,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">class X {</div><div class=""> static func f0() -> Int { return 0 }</div><div class=""> func f0() -> String { return "" }</div><div class="">}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let fn1 = X.f0 // () -> Int</div><div class="">let x = X()</div><div class="">let fn2 = x.f0 // () -> String</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">So one might have to conjure up an instance to force the instance method, or use type context to force the issue:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">let fn3: (X) -> () -> String = X.f0</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but it can be done without extra syntax.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Doug</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">—Nathan</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello Swift community,<br class=""><br class="">The review of "Naming Functions with Argument Labels" begins now and runs through January 10th. The proposal is available here:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0018-flexible-memberwise-initialization.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0021-generalized-naming.md</a><br class=""><br class="">Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All reviews should be sent to the swift-evolution mailing list at<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br class=""><br class="">or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to the review manager.<br class=""><br class="">What goes into a review?<br class=""><br class="">The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of Swift. When writing your review, here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* What is your evaluation of the proposal?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* If you have you used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* How much effort did you put into your review? 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