<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I like this idea, but I would imagine that for an extension with many functions in it, requiring @nonobjc on each one would get tedious very fast. Could it be required (or at least allowed in addition to per-method annotations) at the extension level?:<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>@objc protocol P {}</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>@nonobjc extension P {</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>func foo() { }</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>func bar() { }</div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>func baz() { }<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>func blah() { }<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>// etc...</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know if this would have specific implementation ramifications over only doing this on each method, if extensions cannot already be modified with attributes. I can’t think of a case where I’ve seen annotations added to protocol extensions, or any other extensions for that matter.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 4, 2016, at 11:32 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We currently have a bit of a surprise when one extends an @objc protocol:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">@objc protocol P { }</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">extension P {</div></div><div class=""><div class=""> func bar() { }</div></div><div class=""><div class="">}</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">class C : NSObject { }</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">let c = C()</div></div><div class=""><div class="">print(c.respondsToSelector("bar")) // prints "false"</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">because the members of the extension are not exposed to the Objective-C runtime. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no direct way to implement Objective-C entry points for protocol extensions. One would effectively have to install a category on every Objective-C root class [*] with the default implementation or somehow intercept all of the operations that might involve that selector. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alternately, and more simply, we could require @nonobjc on members of @objc protocol extensions, as an explicit indicator that the member is not exposed to Objective-C. It’ll eliminate surprise and, should we ever find both the mechanism and motivation to make default implementations of @objc protocol extension members work, we could easily remove the restriction at that time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Doug</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[*] Assuming you can enumerate them, although NSObject and the hidden SwiftObject cover the 99%. Even so, that it’s correct either, because the root class itself might default such a method, and the category version would conflict with it, so...</div>
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