[swift-dev] Where are @_attributes documented?

Ling Wang an00na at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 21:42:54 CST 2015


Yes I’m submitting patches to stdlib. Thanks for pointing me to the doc folder.

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 30, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Ling Wang via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>> I want to submit some patches but I’m not sure whether I should apply some @_attributes(like @_transparent and @_semantics) that I see in stdlib to my API because I don’t know their meanings.
> 
> If it starts with an underscore, the answer is always "no, unless you're the standard library". These attributes are compiler-internal and not intended to be used by user code. We reserve the right to change them with reckless abandon.
> 
>> Where are they documented?
> 
> Some are documented in the compiler's 'doc/' subdirectory in various places.
> 
> -Joe



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