[swift-evolution] Pitch: Import Objective-C Constants as Enums

[Zach Waldowski]

+1 one to the updated proposal. I like the change a lot, even if it's
even more pain for the poor framework teams. ;-)

Apropos of nothing, a coworker reminded me today of something that would
fit well into this proposal, even if only as a clarifying example: UTIs
are a great instance of "strongly-typedef'ed strings", with the
possibility of user-defined cases, and whose use in Cocoa APIs is often
ambiguous. There are several hundred constants, too, so it'd be a good
stress-test for everything in the proposal.

Cheers! Zachary Waldowski zach at waldowski.me


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016, at 04:14 PM, Jeff Kelley via swift-evolution wrote:
> I have updated the proposal[1] to use struct over enum
> (https://github.com/SlaunchaMan/swift-evolution/blob/import-objc-constants/proposals/0000-import-objc-constants.md)
> .
>
>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Douglas Gregor
>> <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I suggest that you put “String” somewhere in the title of your
>> proposal when you revise it.
>
> Would this need to be limited to strings? There are other “magic
> constants” that could conceivably be imported as structs—I’m thinking,
> for instance, error codes.
>
>
> Jeff Kelley
>
>
> SlaunchaMan at gmail.com | @SlaunchaMan[2] | jeffkelley.org
>
>>
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Links:

  1. https://github.com/SlaunchaMan/swift-evolution/blob/import-objc-constants/proposals/0000-import-objc-constants.md
  2. https://twitter.com/SlaunchaMan
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