[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE 0192 - Non-Exhaustive Enums

Slava Pestov spestov at apple.com
Tue Dec 19 19:35:14 CST 2017



> On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> So I guess I’m saying, I want more thought put on the topic of whether enums defined in Swift should actually default to non-exhaustive, and I’m now leaning towards the idea that they should remain exhaustive (but Obj-C enums will still default to non-exhaustive).

This would introduce an inconsistency between enums and structs. Structs will not be fixed-contents by default (there’s a proposal coming for that), which means you will be able to add stored properties after the fact. For this reason it makes more sense to me to also make enums non-exhaustive by default so that new cases can be added.

Slava
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