[swift-evolution] [Idea] Find alternatives to `switch self`

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

>>> (tl;dr: will Swift 3.0 improve iteration for enum values? Some kind of .next() method for values or .all[] property. Currently we have a problem with this.)
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>> There are proposals to do this, but they're on hold at the moment because the guy who was the main driving force got busy with meatspace things. Roughly, you would be able to conform an enum to a ValuesEnumerable protocol which would automatically synthesize an `allValues` static property on it. You could use an extension to do this to an enum that didn't belong to you, so you could get this even if the original author didn't think to add it.
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> Could you provide a little more information about this ValuesEnumerable protocol? My Swift says it doesn't know about such protocol.
> Strange, but goggle knows nothing about
> 'swift "ValuesEnumerable"'
> But I can see ValuesEnumerable in some articles related to C#.

This design is still very much under development—it hasn't even been reviewed, let alone added to the language. Here's the draft proposal: <https://github.com/jtbandes/swift-evolution/blob/case-enumerable/proposals/0000-derived-collection-of-enum-cases.md>

I'm not saying that this will necessarily be a solution that ends up being accepted—I'm merely saying that yes, it's something people are thinking about and designing; it's just been inactive for a few weeks.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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