[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Foundation Swift Archival & Serialization

[Oliver Jones]

Fantastic. Great to hear. I look forward to reading the revised proposal!

Regards

> On 24 Mar 2017, at 3:34 am, Itai Ferber <iferber at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> Thanks for your comments! We thought about this and we agree overall — we will incorporate this suggestion along with others in the next batch update as long as nothing prohibitive comes up.
> 
> — Itai
> 
> On 23 Mar 2017, at 7:49, Oliver Jones wrote:
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> Like everyone I’m excited by this new proposal.  But…
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> > protocol Codable: Adopted by types to opt into archival. Conformance may be automatically derived in cases where all properties are also Codable.
> 
> … can I make one suggestion.  Please do not repeat the mistakes of NSCoding in combining the encoding and decoding into a single protocol.  Just as there are Encoder and Decoder classes their should be Encodable and Decodable protocols (maybe have an aggregate Codable protocol for convenience but do not force it).
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