[swift-evolution] Smart KeyPaths

[Matthew Johnson]

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> On Mar 19, 2017, at 3:45 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>>> On Mar 19, 2017, at 12:57 PM, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I disagree. How the reader is supposed to now there is a static property or not ? Having readable code is more important than having easy to write code.
>> 
>> I’ve got to agree with this. With the proposed syntax, it’s unclear whether you’re referring to a static property or a key path. It’s going to cause confusion. There needs to be some kind of syntactic way to differentiate the two.
> 
> How often do you have a property with the exact same name and type on both the instance and type? When you *do* have one, how often would it be better off with a name like `defaultFoo` instead of plain `foo`?
> 
> Why is this a problem for keypaths, but not for unbound methods?
> 
> How is this different from a hundred other places in Swift where we allow overloading and tolerate ambiguity in order to enjoy nicer syntax?
> 
> When, in practice, do you expect this to cause trouble?

+1

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