[swift-evolution] Proposal Idea : Library (third party) Importable Checking

[Jo Albright]

Sad news. Thanks for looking into it.

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Jo Albright


> On Jan 15, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 11:17 PM, Félix Cloutier <felixcca at yahoo.ca <mailto:felixcca at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
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>> If it's meant to be included in a library, don't we need a linkage mechanism that will expose these symbols only if another library is linked in?
> 
> I see, that's the part I missed. If you wanted these symbols to be conditionally available, that would indeed require a new language, and probably dynamic linker, feature. You could however manage this without any new features, by adding the extensions in a third library dependent on the two base libraries.
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> -Joe
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>> Félix
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>>> Le 15 janv. 2016 à 01:43:16, Jo Albright via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> a écrit :
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>>>> Interesting idea. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to me you could kill both birds with one stone. If we add an 'importable' predicate to the '#if' language, then you can already use that to conditionalize the import:
>>>> 
>>>> #if importable(ThirdPartyLibrary)
>>>> import ThirdPartyLibrary
>>>> /* decls that depend on library */
>>>> #endif
>>>> 
>>>> -Joe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am totally on board with that idea… since you could declare a type outside of the “#if importable” scope and add an extension inside the scope.
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>>> Jo Albright
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