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

[Erica Sadun]

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

To clarify: radars, bugreport.apple.com <http://bugreport.apple.com/>, and not bugs.swift.org <http://bugs.swift.org/>, right? Also, any best 
tips for getting them noticed? Anyone in particular we can ping on Twitter or via
email with radar numbers?

-- E

> 
>> 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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