>From a technical perspective it is not impossible to do however as of current
>reference type to structural type bridging is conflated with the objective c
>runtime being present (specifically present on Darwin targets). Personally I
>think we need a better answer than what we have today but I
Hi Philippe, Thanks for your response! I have one more question.>> In general it is because we don't have bridging on Linux.Will we have it in future? Pardon my ignorance. Pushkar N Kulkarni,
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-phaus...@apple.com wrote:
That particular issue we could plaster over with generics. In general it is
because we don't have bridging on Linux.
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> On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Pushkar N Kulkarni wrote:
>
> Hi Tony/Philippe,
>
> There've been a few bug reports related to the coercion problems between
Hi Tony/Philippe, There've been a few bug reports related to the coercion problems between Swift and Foundation types on Linux. For example this one: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2477 (Double/Int don't coerce with NSNumber on Linux). Is there any general approach you'd suggest to work around th