Yes indeed! He and I have been exchanging emails :-) -Chris
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 5:20 AM, Ben Rimmington <m...@benrimmington.com> wrote: > > Have you seen John Holdsworth's experiments? > <https://github.com/johnno1962/SwiftPython> > > -- Ben > >> On 4 Jan 2018, at 20:52, Chris Lattner wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> With the holidays and many other things behind us, the core team had a >> chance to talk about python interop + the dynamic member lookup proposal >> recently. >> >> Here’s where things stand: we specifically discussed whether a >> counter-proposal of using “automatically generated wrappers” or “foreign >> classes” to solve the problem would be better. After discussion, the >> conclusion is no: the best approach appears to be >> DynamicMemberLookup/DynamicCallable or something similar in spirit to them. >> As such, I’ll be dusting off the proposal and we’ll eventually run it. >> >> For transparency, I’m attaching the analysis below of what a wrapper >> facility could look like, and why it doesn’t work very well for Python >> interop. I appologize in advance that this is sort of train-of-thought and >> not a well written doc. >> >> That said, it would be really great to get tighter integration between Swift >> and SwiftPM for other purposes! I don’t have time to push this forward in >> the short term though, but if someone was interested in pushing it forward, >> many people would love to see it discussed seriously. >> >> -Chris > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
