[swift-evolution] Promote "primitive" types to enums in extensions

[Haravikk]

> On 25 Mar 2016, at 09:56, Carlos Rodríguez Domínguez via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> The key of this proposal is that the struct/class should come from outside any swift source code, that is, either imported by the compiler from C, or auto-generated from any external tool (i.e., a CoreData autogenerated class from a graphically specified data model). Of course, in well written structures (as specified by Paul Ossenbruggen) we shouldn’t have any need for this proposal. However, many C structures make use of a raw type instead of an enum type, but specifying (through the associated documentation, not by any type enforcement) that only a set of enum values are allowed. Consequently, the resulting code making use of those structures becomes highly error prone, and, particularly in swift, very “old-style” code and difficult to understand for newcomers.
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> Again, I would like to highlight that my proposal intends to avoid as much as possible the use of enums’ raw values.

I think I may be similarly misunderstanding your proposal; your intention then is to import the type as an enum with raw value (to facilitate the conversion to/from the C code) but without exposing that raw value on the Swift side?

In that case I think I’m in favour.