<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 Nov 16, 2017, at 4:49 AM, Michel Fortin 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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I think this protocol and its subscript need a better name. From a user of the class point of view, the subscript looks like you can retrieve the members of the class, whereas in reality you'll only get the ones you have manually implemented. Even methods and properties having the `dynamic` attribute won't be available, even though the subscript name would suggest that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would propose adding the word `supplemental`to the subscript name and the name of the protocol to make it clearer that this is only for adding members that are not declared in the class (including the `dynamic` ones).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As in `SupplementalDynamicMemberLookupProtocol` and `supplementalDynamicMember` for the subscript.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m totally open to suggestions for a better name, but I don’t see what “Supplemental” is adding here. Recall that this protocol is compiler “magic” that is part of an implementation of a type, it isn’t really part of the user-exposed API of the type. I wouldn’t expect a user to ever write:</div><div><br class=""></div><div> pyVal[dynamicMember: “foo”]</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Even though they could. Maybe we need to add private conformances to Swift or something :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 15 nov. 2017 à 2:29, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="highlight highlight-source-swift" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><pre class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-wrap: normal; padding: 16px; overflow: auto; line-height: 1.45; background-color: rgb(246, 248, 250); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-break: normal;"><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">protocol</span> <span class="pl-en" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(111, 66, 193);">DynamicMemberLookupProtocol</span> {
<span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">associatedtype</span> <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 92, 197);">DynamicMemberLookupValue</span>
<span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">subscript</span>(dynamicMember name<span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">:</span> <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 92, 197);">String</span>) <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">-></span> DynamicMemberLookupValue { <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">get</span> <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">set</span> }
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