[swift-evolution] [Pitch] "unavailable" members shouldn't need an impl

[Leonardo Pessoa]

I've seen around the Swift source code some uses of a function named
something like NSUnimplemented(). I'm not sure this is available only
inside the Swift source or if we could call it as well (I'm not in
front of a Swift compiler right now so I cannot test).

The idea of being able to drop the body of the function is interesting
but I keep thinking of the overhead of the compiler to check for every
function if it can drop the requirement for a body. Perhaps keeping
the body is well suited here.

On 10 June 2016 at 18:26, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution
<swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> So, instead of:
>
> @available(*, unavailable, renamed:"someNewAPI()")
> public func someOldAPI() -> Int { fatalError() }
>
> You can just have:
>
> @available(*, unavailable, renamed:"someNewAPI()")
> public func someOldAPI() -> Int
>
> The intent is, in my opinion, clearer for the latter and it feels less
> kludgy.
>
>
> You ask, we answer. I'd much prefer spelling out { fatalError("unavailable
> API") }.
> It makes the code clearer to read, to maintain, it produces debug and
> runtime errors. etc. I think
> this is an example where concision is overrated.
>
> -- E
>
>
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