[swift-evolution] Getting rid of willSet/didSet
Jack Lawrence
jackl at apple.com
Tue Dec 15 01:49:25 CST 2015
I’m not sure I understand your example. `super` is a reference to the superclass implementation of `foo`, but `UIView` doesn’t declare a property called `foo`.
Jack
> On Dec 14, 2015, at 11:23 PM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>
>> It *is* odd, and I do the described didSet trick *all* the time.
>>
>> Stuff like:
> The alternative wouldn’t be that complicated:
>
> public class MyView: UIView {
> public var foo: Int {
> set(value) {
> super.foo = value
> setNeedsDisplay()
> }
> }
> }
>
> It’s just one line more, but three(!) keywords less that could be removed from the language; and I bet in the wild there are many thousand errors in subclasses of UIViewController that happen because the author didn’t remember wether he has to call super in viewDid…, loadView etc.
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