[swift-evolution] Requesting default values for Cocoa/Cocoa Touch APIs

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon Apr 11 2016, Russ Bishop <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Wouldn’t this be the responsibility of UIKit/AppKit teams to provide extensions
> that pass the default values?

Yup.  Please file radars against those components.

> Russ
>
>     On Apr 8, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
>     <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>     Is there a best way to request default values for common Cocoa and Cocoa
>     Touch APIs? 
>     Now that we're moving to Swift, the language supports defaults and omitted
>     parameters
>     but the ObjC APIs do not (yet) supply them. 
>
>     For example, dismissViewControllerAnimated(flag: true, completion: nil) 
>     could become dismissAnimated() when default values are available for flag
>     and completion.
>     There's a large-ish class of these boilerplate defaults and it would be nice
>     if there were a way to
>     be able to request them.
>
>     cc'ing in Daniel S whose idea this is.
>
>     Thanks, -- E
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Dave