<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Type</code> is a bad name for a public type: <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">FooType</code> is almost always a better name. Libraries that describe “just types”, Swift types, can as well use <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Metatype</code> or <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Mirror</code> or something.<br>For nested types, like <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Foo.Type</code>, in the meaning of “type of <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Foo</code>“, <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Type</code> can’t be used even now.<br>I’d give up on <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">Type</code> name for the greater future of metatypes.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">2017-02-18 16:28 GMT+03:00 Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" target="_blank">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>>:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p><div class="markdown-here-exclude"><p></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-3396370866651105684bloop_markdown"><p>Personally I’d prefer <code>Metatype<T></code> and <code>AnyMetatype<T></code> to get rid of the restriction where you mostly cannot create custom types called <code>Type</code>, which annoys me a lot. Sometimes <code>Kind</code> as a good workaround but there are times where <code>Kind</code> doesn’t fit. :/</p></div></div></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"></p>
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