[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0047 Defaulting non-Void functions so they warn on unused results

[Dany St-Amant]

> Le 17 mars 2016 à 06:50, Haravikk via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
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>> On 17 Mar 2016, at 09:27, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> Have a look at http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface.html <http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface.html> for a good reason to keep "results" discardable.
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> Ack, hit send before quoting this part to come back to it.
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> I assume your point here is that having to add @discardableResult (or whatever) will lead to fluent interfaces becoming prone to the same mistakes that non-fluent interfaces currently have with @warn_unused_result.
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> Perhaps we could add some kind of attribute to the type itself to allow for selection between the two behaviours?
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> For example, we could use a different attribute in the style of:
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> @unusedResult(ignore)
> @unusedResult(warn)

If we go with something like this, we may want to also have a:

@unusedResult(critical)

Which generate error for unused result, and a warning when assigning the result to  _.
This could be useful for function which return allocated resources, which is a return code that should never be ignored even explicitly.

Dany

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