> On Mar 22, 2017, at 5:51 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [Proposal: 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0160-objc-inference.md]
> 
> I'm definitely in favor of this. Apart from the various motivations discussed 
> in the proposal, this also allows some changes that could improve incremental 
> builds: the generated header ("MyApp-Swift.h") wouldn't need to be 
> regenerated nearly as often with fewer methods exposed to Objective-C. 
> (There's some nuance here that I don't need to go into right now, and there 
> are alternate solutions to that problem, but it's nice that the common case 
> will just put fewer declarations into the header and therefore it would 
> change less often.)
> 
> The migration aspect is a little scary. #selector's Objective-C equivalent is 
> @selector, which is easy to search for, but #keyPath maps to plain old 
> strings.

Are these strings usually literal strings that are passed in to some set of 
mostly-known selector names, or do people pass them around or even construct 
them dynamically?

Slava

> For those with Mac apps, properties might even be referenced in Interface 
> Builder using Cocoa Bindings. But limiting the change to Swift 4 mode seems 
> acceptable to me—at least it's a known change that people will be able to 
> point to when things stop working.
> 
> Jordan
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