[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0036: Requiring Leading Dot Prefixes for Enum Instance Member Implementations

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> As as been pointed out in the past, why not make a leading dot mean static (including enum). This would be nice and consistent. 

And it would break the common pattern of doing things like:

	string.compare(otherString, options: [.caseInsensitive, .numeric])

Leading dot can only mean one thing; if it means "static member on the type of Self", it cannot mean "static member on the inferred type of the expression".

Now, what might be nice is if you could say `Self.someCase` or `Type.someCase` to access a static member without retyping the type name. Alas, we are not so lucky as that.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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