[swift-users] swift 4.0 "swift-version 4" errors with "type(of:"

[Slava Pestov]

Do you have a member named ‘type’ in the current scope?

We changed the behavior of type(of:) so that it behaves like a normal declaration in the Swift module instead of a special keyword. Unfortunately this means if you have a ‘type’ already visible in scope, you have to fully qualify Swift.type(of:).

Slava

> On May 19, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Edward Connell via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> When running the compiler using the "-swift-version 4" flag, the compiler complains about creating a dynamic type. Errors are flagged from within concrete base classes and also within protocol extensions.
> 
> error: cannot invoke 'type' with an argument list of type '(of: Self)'
>                 let newObject = type(of: self).init()
> 
> Has this changed?? Are we supposed to create dynamic types a different way now?
> 
> Thanks, Ed
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