[swift-corelibs-dev] #if __CORELIBS_FOUNDATION__

[Drew Crawford]

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Tony Parker <anthony.parker at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> In this particular case, how would you use the #if? Any should be source compatible with AnyObject, since Any is a superset of AnyObject, right?

Well I don't know what you mean by "compatible" but the thing about strongly typed languages is we can't do

let a: Any

foo(a: AnyObject) { /* */ }

foo(a)

because that is "type error".  We can of course cast, but if in Darwin a.self is already AnyObject, casting again to AnyObject produces a warning, and I try to not have any warnings in my code.

This is kind of a side quest–there are a lot of ways to work around these problems–but the obviously straightforward one was to use #if to conditionally cast, and that wasn't available.

More broadly I find myself using the #if that I've created very often–my workflow seems to be to create an extension on an NSClass in-file that adds missing functionality and then PR it to corelibs-foundation afterwards–and conditional compilation really helps with that workflow.
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