<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen 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=""><div class="">Hi Xiaodi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for you reply, yes, I am aware from most things you write here,</div><div class="">and also that what I wrote about dynamic facilities is probably not unique,</div><div class="">as there are so many people involved and interested etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">then you wrote</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">… Swift 3, but the truth is that there will never be a release based on Swift 3 that additionally has dynamic facilities. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">You wanna make a bet? I see that as a challenge to work this out in detail much further, because I am convinced that</div><div class="">these dynamic features in one form or another can be implemented successfully and add great value to Swift !</div><div class="">I come back with it much later when there is time, capacity and interest.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I <i class="">think</i> Xiaodi was talking about an *official* Swift 3.x release. Meaning that Swift will be at least at version 4 before any of these features might be adopted into mainstream Swift.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- Dave Sweeris</div></body></html>