`func type(of:)` is wholly magical, but it does have a signature in the stdlib (mostly for documentation purposes), and it currently requires its input to be copyable and escapable.
`type(of:)` is actually usable on all entities, so it seems desirable to update its signature to reflect this.
Additionally, this seems like a good time to mark its exported symbol obsolete. I don’t expect anyone would ever link to it (unless there is/was a bug), so in theory we could also silently remove it — but explicitly marking it as legacy ABI seems the least risky option.
We cannot currently express its proper lifetime semantics: its result’s lifetime should depend on the intersection of the lifetime of the left argument and the lifetime of the result of the right argument.
`@lifetime(optional, defaultValue.result)` is what we want, but the `.result` part is not currently expressible. (Tying the dependency on the closure argument itself may be a viable option, but we aren’t confident enough to ship it like that yet.)
Introduce a marker protocol SendableMetatype that is used to indicate
when the metatype of a type will conform to Sendable. Specifically,
`T: SendableMetatype` implies `T.Type: Sendable`. When strict
metatype sendability is enabled, metatypes are only sendable when `T:
SendableMetatype`.
All nominal types implicitly conform to `SendableMetatype`, as do the
various builtin types, function types, etc. The `Sendable` marker
protocol now inherits from `SendableMetatype`, so that `T: Sendable`
implies `T.Type: Sendable`.
Thank you Slava for the excellent idea!
We used to treat 'rethrows' like an attribute, printing it as
'@rethrows', which was incorrect. That's fixed now, so update the
API/ABI checker tests to account for that.
