type(of: ) in Swift 3 does not seem to work with the is type check

Question

type(of: x) in Swift 3 does not seem to work with the is type check

It just gives this error message:

Consecutive statements on a line must be separated by ';'

Code example:

class Test : UIViewController {}

let test = Test()
let test2 = Test()
let isEqual = test2 is type(of: test) // this does not compile

What is wrong here?
How to do dynamic type checking like this in Swift 3?

Answer 1

In this specific context:

class Test : UIViewController {}

class Test1 : UIViewController {}

let test = Test()
let test2 = Test1()

let f = test2.isKind(of: test2.classForCoder)

print(f)

Output: true

This might be another idea for checking the type

Other than that

let q = type(of: test) == type(of: test)

Will return true but only if that was the same class not a subclass