Hello everyone. This is my first contribution to Swift Evolution. In summary:
It would be nice if the type casting operator accepted expressions on its right
side.
So, basically, the type casting operator only accepts types and can't process
expressions on its right side.
Having a class A, and a subclass of A, B:
class A {}
class B: A {}
And a function that returns the passed type:
func type<T: A>(t: T.Type) -> T.Type {
return t
}
The following scenario works:
let b = B()
let a = (b as A)
However the following scenario doesn't:
let b = B()
let a = (b as type(A))
Having the “as” accept expressions on its right side would be really useful and
could enable some truly great generic algorithm implementations.
Looking forward to what you guys think about this.
— Oscar Swanros | @swanros
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