I have 3 qualms with this proposal as it stands: - type(of:) will never lie to you.
The only question it won’t answer to your satisfaction is the dynamic type of the NSString you boxed up as an Any. - No more keywords without significant justification. I don’t buy the performance use case at all - if you were properly concerned about performance you would try to use as many of Swift’s static features as possible. - Especially no more keywords that look like they belong in Rust or PHP! There is no precedent for the spelling of these operations other than the suffixed punctuation. Given that they’re domain-specific, will definitely be hard to use (given that NSString(string: "Bar”) may not “really” given you an NSString yet that’s what you asked us to check for “really"), and will be obviated by the implementation of SE-0083, I can’t see a reason why we need any of this in the language proper. ~Robert Widmann > On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > MOTIVATION: > > SE-0083 appears to be dead in the water, having been deferred until later in > Swift 3 back in May and not having been heard from since then, with the Swift > 3 release looming closer and closer. However, the predictability gains that > would have been provided by this change remain desirable for cases where one > needs to know the actual dynamic type of an entity before any bridging magic > is involved. Additionally, performance-critical code may desire the ability > to check something’s type quickly without incurring the overhead of > Objective-C bridging code. > > PROPOSED SOLUTION: > > I propose the following operators: really_is, really_as, really_as?, and > really_as!. These operators would only return a positive result if the type > actually was what was being asked for, instead of something that might be > able to bridge to that type. > > DETAILED DESIGN: > > let foo: Any = "Foo" > let bar: Any = NSString(string: "Bar") > > let fooIsString = foo is String // true > let fooReallyIsString = foo really_is String // true > > let fooIsNSString = foo is NSString // true > let fooReallyIsNSString = foo really_is NSString // false > > let barIsString = bar is String // true > let barReallyIsString = bar really_is String // false > > let barIsNSString = bar is NSString // true > let barReallyIsNSString = bar really_is NSString // true > > ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED: > > Stick with using an unholy combination of Mirror and unsafeBitCast when you > need to know what you’ve actually got. > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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