Remove the Need for 'self' to Access 'dynamicType'

Hi,

When access the `dynamicType` of a class inside one of its instance
methods. We should be using `self.dynamicType`. I purpose that the
dynamicType operator can be accessed without the need for the `self`.
So code like the following

class Foo {
    static let SomeStaticConstantValue = 5
    static func someStaticMethod() {
    }

    func bar() {
        self.dynamicType.someStaticMethod()
        print(self.dynamicType.SomeStaticConstantValue)
    }
}

can be translated to

class Foo {
    static let SomeStaticConstantValue = 5
    static func someStaticMethod() {
    }

    func bar() {
        dynamicType.someStaticMethod()
        print(dynamicType.SomeStaticConstantValue)
    }
}

Best Regards,
Mohamed Afifi

+1 to this. I commonly reference self alone very close to
self.dynamicType when I use the dynamicType keyword, and I dislike the
repetitiveness it brings. If a standalone dynamicType is already
disallowed by the compiler, I don't see a technical reason this cannot
happen, personally. If this can happen, then self should probably still
be required to qualify dynamicType in closure contexts (for
consistency), for example:

class Foo {
  let value = 123
  func bar() {
    dispatch_async(queue, {
      print(self.dynamicType.value) // self needed here in this closure
    })
  }
}

···

On 4/10/2016 5:15 AM, Mohamed Ebrahim Afifi via swift-evolution wrote:

Hi,

When access the `dynamicType` of a class inside one of its instance
methods. We should be using `self.dynamicType`. I purpose that the
dynamicType operator can be accessed without the need for the `self`.
So code like the following

class Foo {
    static let SomeStaticConstantValue = 5
    static func someStaticMethod() {
    }

    func bar() {
        self.dynamicType.someStaticMethod()
        print(self.dynamicType.SomeStaticConstantValue)
    }
}

can be translated to

class Foo {
    static let SomeStaticConstantValue = 5
    static func someStaticMethod() {
    }

    func bar() {
        dynamicType.someStaticMethod()
        print(dynamicType.SomeStaticConstantValue)
    }
}

Best Regards,
Mohamed Afifi

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