[swift-evolution] [Idea] How to eliminate 'optional' protocol requirements

[Gwendal Roué]

> Le 8 avr. 2016 à 14:47, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> Interesting proposal, but I wanted to mention a couple of potential issues off the top of my head.  I know when I was using optional requirements in Objective C, I would often use the presence/lack of the method (not just whether it returned nil) in the logic of my program.  I used the presence of a method as a way for the implementor of a delegate to naturally communicate whether they wanted a more advanced feature.  The absence of the method itself is information which can be utilized, not just whether it returns nil, and I believe that is part of what people are asking for when they say they want optional methods in Swift.
> 

Couldn’t agree more.

An telling example is NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate.controller(_:didChangeObject:atIndexPath:forChangeType:newIndexPath:).

When this method is not implemented, the NSFetchedResultsController does not have to perform the heavy computations of individual changes in a Core Data fetch request, since nobody is listening to them.

In today’s Swift, this lazy behavior requires an extra configuration flag.

Gwendal Roué

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