[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Enum Leading Dot Prefixes

[Chris Lattner]

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Carlos Parada via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Taking consistency further, should the definition also use dot prefixes?

I agree with others’ comments downthread.  The goal here is to make enum cases more similar to static members, since that is how they behave.  Both static members and enum cases can be referred to with the leading dot syntax already, and we wouldn’t add dot to the declaration of static members.

-Chris


> For example:
> 
>> enum Coin {
>>     case .Heads, .Tails
>>     func printMe() {
>>         switch self {
>>         case .Heads: print("Heads")
>>         case .Tails: print("Tails")
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
> 
> — Carlos Parada
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