> On Oct 5, 2016, at 14:43, Jens Alfke via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> > wrote: > > >> On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Bob Miller via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> This is a Swift3 newbie question that I’ve not found a solution to. Has >> there been any consensus reached on an equivalent approach to the AppKit >> class NSInvocation ? Here’s a simple objC example. > > Swift doesn’t have an equivalent because the language simply isn’t as dynamic > as Objective-C: there is no mechanism to invoke a method at runtime given its > name. > > If you’re on an Apple platform, and the method you want to call, and its > class, are @objc — then you can literally use NSInvocation from Swift to do > this. But not otherwise.
However, there are usually better answers than NSInvocation (both in Swift and Objective-C). What are you actually trying to do? Jordan _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
