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The protocol to which all classes implicitly conform.

When used as a concrete type, all known @objc methods and properties are available, as implicitly-unwrapped-optional methods and properties respectively, on each instance of AnyObject. For example:

class C {
  @objc func getCValue() -> Int { return 42 }
}
 
// If x has a method @objc getValue()->Int, call it and
// return the result.  Otherwise, return nil.
func getCValue1(x: AnyObject) -> Int? {
  if let f: ()->Int = **x.getCValue** {
    return f()
  }
  return nil
}
 
// A more idiomatic implementation using "optional chaining"
func getCValue2(x: AnyObject) -> Int? {
  return **x.getCValue?()**
}
 
// An implementation that assumes the required method is present
func getCValue3(x: AnyObject) -> **Int** {
  return **x.getCValue()** // x.getCValue is implicitly unwrapped.
}

See also: AnyClass