> On Mar 6, 2017, at 7:10 PM, Philippe Hausler via swift-dev > <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > > > On Mar 6, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com > <mailto:gpar...@apple.com>> wrote: > >> >>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Philippe Hausler via swift-dev >>> <swift-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to mark a function in swift (on Linux) to use the same >>> emission strategy as weak declarations in c? >>> >>> I was to tinkering with some ideas on fixing some poor behavior in >>> swift-corelibs-foundation and weak would potentially solve this specific >>> case. >>> >>> For reference this is the syntax I am interested in (since it is a bit >>> obscure) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_symbol >>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_symbol> >> Weak definitions are expensive. What are you trying to do? >> > > I was trying to prototype some fixes for factory pattern initializers. The > other strategy that I was considering was using hoisting of functions to init > methods but that didn't seem to work with disparate types. This wasn't really > intended to be a real solution but more so a proof of concept.
Could you be more specific about how you're trying to apply weak definitions to the problem? -Joe
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