Comment by Austin Zheng (JIRA)

Given that this is marked as `StarterBug` and the semantics are pretty straightforward, I'd like to try my hand at it.

Comment by Josef Willsher (JIRA)

An initial implementation is in this PR: #3866 – we still need to implement allowing `Self` to refer to the dynamic type of non final classes.

Comment by Austin Zheng (JIRA)

Awesome! Do you mind if I reassign the ticket to you, joewillsher (JIRA User)?

Comment by Josef Willsher (JIRA)

Not at all, thanks

Comment by erica sadun (JIRA)

Since this went to radar, is it totally dead? How did it end up?

Almost two years have passed, this proposal isn't implemented yet. Hmm.

Comment by Noam Tamim (JIRA)

Is there still a plan to implement this feature? When it was filed, the common "workaround" was self.dynamicType.staticMethod(). In Swift 3, this has been replaced with type(of: self).staticMethod(), which is even more annoying IMHO.
Self.staticMethod() is so obvious in Swift-world that I just typed it, expecting it to work, and was surprised that it doesn't.

Yes, it is still planned. It is a lower priority since it's not ABI, and we need to do some architectural changes to the type system before this feature can make sense for classes.

I've put forward a PR that from a functional point of view is a contender to solve this problem even if it isn’t particularly elegant: #22863