>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 don't see the >winds changing in the immediate future to support ref type bridges uniformly >in a cross platform manner. So the only recourse from what I can imagine is to >make methods that take Any really respond to any via internal >reinterpretation. The return types however are a different story since that >makes a requirement on the caller to do the "right" thing.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Pushkar N Kulkarni <pushkar...@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > 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, > IBM Runtimes > > Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger W. Dijkstra > > > > -----phaus...@apple.com wrote: ----- > To: Pushkar N Kulkarni/India/IBM@IBMIN > From: Philippe Hausler > Sent by: phaus...@apple.com > Date: 09/08/2016 09:11PM > Cc: Tony Parker <anthony.par...@apple.com>, Swift corelibs dev > <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> > Subject: Re: Coercion problems on Linux > > That particular issue we could plaster over with generics. In general it is > because we don't have bridging on Linux. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Pushkar N Kulkarni <pushkar...@in.ibm.com> wrote: >> >> 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 this coercion >> limitation on Linux? >> >> Pushkar N Kulkarni, >> IBM Runtimes >> >> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger W. Dijkstra >> >> >
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