<div dir="ltr">Do others find themselves implementing class-only protocols often? They seem to be the exception, rather than the rule, to me.<div><br></div><div>Stephen</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Sean Heber via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I found this odd, too. I don’t know what kind of parsing ramifications this might have, but I like the idea. I suppose one downside is that it makes protocols for classes seem somehow special or different from other protocols - but then again, they kind of are!<br>
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Sean<br>
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> On Dec 7, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Matthew Cheok via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Currently, we declare class protocols with the following syntax:<br>
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> protocol TestProtocol: class, OtherProtocol {}<br>
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> This is odd for a few reasons:<br>
> 1) The keyword class exists in the middle of the declaration<br>
> 2) The keyword class follows the colon and looks a lot like inheritance<br>
> 3) The keyword class occupies a somewhat arbitrary first position after the colon (otherwise we have an error)<br>
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> We also have another use of the class keyword as a modifier when declaring class methods:<br>
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> class func doSomething() {}<br>
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> I’m suggesting a change of syntax that rectifies the above issues:<br>
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> class protocol TestProtocol: OtherProtocol {}<br>
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> Would love to hear other thoughts on this.<br>
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> - Matthew<br>
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