duplicates:

• SR-349 Cannot use nested enums in definition of arrays or as dictionary

Issue Description:

If you declare a struct, enum or class inside another struct, enum or class, it is not possible to refer to the metatype of an array type containing it using square bracket array literals. So [SomeClass.SomeEnum].type doesn't work, and one must instead use Array<SomeClass.SomeEnum>.type

Examples

Let's set up some types and a generic function that takes a metatype as a parameter.

func decode<T>(type: [T].Type) {
    print("decode [T]")
}

class OuterClass{
    enum InnerEnum {
        case Food
        case Bard
    }
}

Example 1

The first example shows that the compiler parsed the parameter to the function completely wrong: