[swift-evolution] Notes from Swift core team 2016-04-20 design discussion

[David Waite]

Sure, but I personally want to configure delegates early, when the delegate is set.

It may be inappropriate to send a synthetic message through (e.g. give me the table row height for arbitrary index -1 so I can detect if you have overridden behavior)

A default implementation may help the caller, but some API do consider a non-default implementation to be a flag in itself.

I don’t think you can meet current objective-c usage and meaning of optional protocols by collapsing the flag into default method behavior. This would cause problems when porting the objective-c caller of the delegate interface to swift.

-DW

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Thorsten Seitz <tseitz42 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> We could require optional methods which would return T to instead return OptionalResult<T> which is essentially an enum with values 'unimplemented' and 'implemented(T)', i.e. essentially the same as Optional but as a separate type to avoid confusion when the real result would be 'T?'.
> 
> Default implementations would answer 'unimplemented'.
> 
> This would require the caller to handle the unimplemented default case explicitly.
> 
> -Thorsten

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