[swift-evolution] Dotless case names in switch cases
Joe Groff
jgroff at apple.com
Fri Jan 15 18:42:09 CST 2016
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Jens Persson via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> enum SomeEnum {
> case Foo
> case Bar
> func demoDotAndNoDot() {
> switch self {
> case .Foo: print("This has the usual dot before the case name.")
> case Bar: print("This has no dot, which is ok, at least in this particular context.")
> }
> }
> }
>
> I'm just throwing this out in case someone should feel like writing a formal proposal to remove the dotless form.
>
> I'd be ok with removing it since it only works in some specific contexts.
This works by normal instance member lookup. Why do you think it should be removed?
-Joe
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