[swift-evolution] Dotless case names in switch cases

[Charles Constant]

-1

I think this would make autocompletion in Xcode more complicated. I like
seeing a list of all enum cases when I start typing

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Jens Persson via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> I see, I never thought of the case names as being instance-member-like,
> and I thought it would be simpler to just  have one form for the switch
> cases (the one with a dot before the case name).
>
> I don't want the dotless form to be removed if it complicates rather than
> simplifies the (compiler) code.
>
> ( My mail was a reaction to this tweet / conversation:
> https://twitter.com/UINT_MIN/status/688101066668281856 )
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > 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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