[swift-evolution] LibDispatch : access to current queue, or queue name

[Gwynne Raskind]

I stand corrected! "currentLabel" would be my prevailing suggestion, then.

-- Gwynne Raskind



> On Jun 20, 2016, at 04:51, Ben Rimmington <me at benrimmington.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 20 Jun 2016, at 10:14, Gwynne Raskind <gwynne at darkrainfall.org> wrote:
>> 
>> dispatch_queue_get_label() isn’t marked as a for-debugging-only API as far as I can see, and I can see uses in non-debugging contexts (logging is the obvious one) for knowing the current queue’s label (without also allowing the error-prone usage of dispatch_get_current_queue() itself). As such, I wouldn’t mind seeing this interface available on DispatchQueue, though I might name it simply "label", as in:
>> 
>> extension DispatchQueue {
>> 	public class var label: String { get }
>> }
> 
> Chris Lattner: "Swift supports instance and type members with the same names, but this is controversial, leads to confusion, and may go away in the future."
> 
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/14558/match=controversial+confusion+future>
> 
> -- Ben