Oh awesome! We'll definitely switch to that. Thanks!

--
Keith Smiley

On 07/01, Alex Migicovsky wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> As a small aside, I’d suggest using ObjectIdentifier instead of a String to 
> back your TypeRepresentation struct. ObjectIdentifier is Hashable and it has 
> an initializer that accepts any type. The benefit of your TypeRepresentation 
> type over ObjectIdentifier is that you can restrict the TypeRepresentation 
> struct to only accept type parameters in its initializer (so you know you’re 
> storing a type and not an object). ObjectIdentifier accepts both objects and 
> types.
>
> - Alex
>
> > On Jul 1, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Keith Smiley via swift-evolution 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This would be great. I've solved this recently by making a 
> > TypeRepresentation
> > type that is initialized with any T, and conforms to Hashable. Of course
> > internally this just uses String(T), but at least that's abstracted from the
> > caller.
> >
> > --
> > Keith Smiley
> >
> > On 07/01, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution wrote:
> >> +1 here as well.  It would be nice to have.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 9:15 AM, Sean Heber via swift-evolution 
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> +1 here, too. Looking like someone needs to write a full proposal! :P
> >>>
> >>> l8r
> >>> Sean
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Tony Allevato via swift-evolution 
> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> +1. I've had to do this a couple times and ended up wrapping them in 
> >>>> string interpolations, which makes me feel terrible.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:26 AM David Sweeris via swift-evolution 
> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> +1
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution 
> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Additive question:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>         • Can a type instance of a type SomeType.self SomeType.Type be 
> >>>>> Hashable?
> >>>>> I really would want to use these in dictionaries or sets :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [Any.Type: ValueType]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Set<Any.Type> // Union type universe
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
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