Wouldn’t this require the Swift compiler and the original binary to work 
properly?

-Kenny


> On Mar 20, 2017, at 6:52 PM, Ricardo Parada <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That is very interesting: "formatting templates that are well typed."
> 
> Would that be like a template and keypaths that were archived to a file, 
> similar to a .nib file?
> 
> 
>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 7:28 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 4:01 PM, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All.
>>> 
>>> I’m not sure I’m understanding this proposal properly. In (old) Cocoa, two 
>>> places where key paths were used extensively was EOF/CoreData, and 
>>> WebObjects. I’m wondering how Smart KeyPaths will solve these two problems:
>>> 
>>> 1. fetching data from a database and stuff it into objects that are not 
>>> known at compile time (since you’ve written the framework ahead of time)
>>> 
>>> 2. Token replacing text in a template, like ${person.firstName}
>>> 
>>> Will there be some conversion of key paths to/from strings?
>> 
>> There won't be a conversion from strings in this initial proposal. That 
>> would be a reasonable thing to add later. For the use case of formatting 
>> strings, hopefully, there'll eventually be some way to build formatting 
>> templates that are well-typed instead of relying on parsing strings at 
>> runtime.
>> 
>> -Joe
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