[swift-evolution] Making `.self` After `Type` Optional

[Adrian Zubarev]

Wouldn’t this enforce enum cases and some static struct variables to be lowercase?

public enum UINavigationControllerOperation: Int {
    
    case None
    case Push
    case Pop
}

public struct NSLayoutFormatOptions: OptionSetType {
    public init(rawValue: UInt)
    
    public static var AlignAllLeft: NSLayoutFormatOptions { get }
    public static var AlignAllRight: NSLayoutFormatOptions { get }
    // etc.
}

Is this really a welcome change? I mean I’d love to see the drop of `.self` magic from types, but not sure about the UppercaseTypes, lowercaseValue convention here.

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Adrian Zubarev
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Am 6. Mai 2016 bei 09:08:57, Pyry Jahkola via swift-evolution (swift-evolution at swift.org) schrieb:

I understand why the alternative of changing the generic type parameter list symbols was rejected, to be consistent with other C based languages, but I don't understand why the following was rejected:

making the UppercaseTypes, lowercaseValues convention a syntactic requirement, as is done in ML and Haskell.
I see that as a good viable alternative.

+1, enforcing the initial character case of type and value identifiers would clear up the language IMO.

It would also mean we'd need to bridge all C APIs in correct case.

Also, in general +1 to getting rid of `.self`.

— Pyry
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