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
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:
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> Hi Tony/Philippe,
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> There've been a few bug reports related to the coercion problems between
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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>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
