> On 18 Aug 2016, at 02:57, John McCall wrote: > > Being able to bypass another class's overrides and jump to a specific > superclass implementation on an arbitrary method call is badly > encapsulation-breaking, and I can't think of any OO language with first-class > support for it besides C++. In every other language I know of, super > dispatch is always restricted to the self object and only bypasses the > overrides of the current class and its subclasses. Of course there are > runtime tricks you can play to get this in, say, ObjC, but I'm not aware of > them being frequently used. I would really to see concrete evidence of this > being useful and necessary before considering it any further.
Doesn't this already exist as "unapplied method references" in Swift? <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0042-flatten-method-types.md> SE-0042 isn't implemented yet, so maybe the curried version should be deprecated? -- Ben _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
