[swift-evolution] Getting rid of willSet/didSet

[Nicky Gerritsen]

But how does this work if `super` does not have `foo`, exactly like in 
this example? UIView does not have a member named `foo`, so it will not 
work.
Moreover, currently if creating a setter, you also need to supply a getter.

Regards,

Nicky

On 12/15/2015 08:23 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution 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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