Silver equivalent to Swift's .Type

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Is there such a thing?

I have a function which returns a type, as follows:

public class func classForType(_ type: Int) -> BaseClass.Type? {
    var deviceType: BaseClass.Type? = nil
    switch type {
    case 1:
        deviceType = Subclass1.self
    case 2:
        deviceType = Subclass2.self
    // ...
    }
    return deviceType
}
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I always get confused by that .Type actually is supposed to represent. But afaik, there’s .Type on the class name, .dynamicType on distances, both are the same as the all-languages typeOf() function.

3

My original post wasn’t clear: the code snippet works in Swift but does not in Silver. It’s as if Silver didn’t know what .Type was.

4

Hm, ok. what platform, Java?

5

Didn’t work in Toffee (I’d like to use it for both Toffee and Cooper, down the line).

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7

Thanks, logged as bugs://81802