[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Explicit Synthetic Behaviour

[Gwendal Roué]

> Le 7 sept. 2017 à 14:45, Tony Allevato <tony.allevato at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Right, let's make sure we're talking about the right thing here. Gwendal, your issue isn't with synthesis in the form of Codable or the new additions to Equatable/Hashable which are opt-in-by-conformance, it's with the specific case of raw value enums or enums without associated values where the synthesis is implicit with no way to opt-out. That's a big difference.

Yes.

> I can definitely see the latter being an issue if it were more widespread, and I'd be supportive of those enums being required to declare their conformance for consistency (though it would be source breaking).

Yes, unfortunately.

> However, I still haven't seen a real issue that has come up because of the distinction being drawn here between default implementations vs. implementations that can access other parts of the concrete type. It sounds like this discussion is trying to protect against a hypothetical problem that hasn't happened yet and may not happen; it would be helpful to show some motivating real-world cases where this is indeed a severe problem.

Yes. I'm not talking about implementation itself. I know this has been the main topic until I have tried to bring in the topic of the consequences of non-avoidable synthesis (extra methods that may conflict with userland methods).

If you ask me for a real-world case, then I think I gave one. Let me rephrase it:

it's impossible to define a value-backed enum without getting free Equatable conformance. This free conformance is sometimes unwanted, and I gave the example of DSLs. Now this problem is not *severe*. It's more a blind spot in the language, and finally just an unwanted side-effect of a compiler convenience,

This example gives a little argument, but still an argument, for "explicit synthetic behavior", the topic of this thread.

Gwendal Roué

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