> On Sep 29, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
> 
> 
> Personally, I consider the first one to be a fairly-low-risk extension to 
> SE-0139 that’s borderline bug-fix. We already know that those types have weak 
> numeric representations in Objective-C because they come from Objective-C, so 
> losing some of the type info by bridging to Objective-C is (IMO) falls out of 
> having strong types in Swift for weaker types in Objective-C.
> 
> The second one makes me a little nervous, I think because it weakens typing 
> for types defined in Swift. These types don’t naturally have Objective-C 
> counterparts, so if we’re going to weaken the types, it feels like we should 
> only do so via some explicit conformance (e.g., to a publicly-available form 
> of _ObjectiveCBridgeable).
> 
>       - Doug
> 

I’m up for reviving the ObjectiveCBridgeable proposal :)


Russ

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