[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0022: Referencing the Objective-C selector of a method

[Chris Lattner]

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 19, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 19, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <jtbandes at gmail.com <mailto:jtbandes at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Is there a well-defined meaning for `#` ?
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>> Not yet.
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>>> What about #selector(x)?
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>> Objective-C selector formation is a *very* narrow feature to consider stealing one of our few underused sigils.
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> Actually, this isn’t that much different from “#available”, in the sense that it’s a special, compiler-supported expression type for which we don’t want to necessarily steal a keyword. What do others think about “#selector”?

I think that #selector is workable and fits into the model - it would be simple to implement and not cause unnecessary complexity in the implementation.

That said, I’m in favor of x.selector, or #selector(x).  The former seems more syntactically elegant if it is practical.

-Chris

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