<div dir="ltr">What about property attributes? how come some attributes don't have a @ like dynamic or lazy and others do like @objc.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Chris Lattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" target="_blank">clattner@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 22, 2016, at 12:03 PM, James Campbell <<a href="mailto:james@supmenow.com" target="_blank">james@supmenow.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto"><div>What about other compiler hacks that begin with @? Like @objc ?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>@ is for attributes. This is an expression.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 22 Jan 2016, at 05:19, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:17 PM, Erica Sadun <<a href="mailto:erica@ericasadun.com" target="_blank">erica@ericasadun.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>+1 to setting __LINE__ (and friends) free of their unsightly upper snake case. They look like boa constrictors trying to digest a fully-swallowed keyword.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I totally agree. Actually, the proper spelling would simply be #line - after all, there’d be no need to shout any more…</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>-- E</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 21, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 21, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br>I think that #selector is workable and fits into the model - it would be simple to implement and not cause unnecessary complexity in the implementation.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, I’m in favor of x.selector, or #selector(x). The former seems more syntactically elegant if it is practical.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The latter gives us easy extensions like</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>#selector(getter: MyType.property)</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>#selector(setter: MyType.property)</div><div><br></div><div>#selector is sorta growing on me.</div></div></div></blockquote><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div><div>+1 from me. At this point in Swift's evolution, the # feels like "invoke compiler substitution logic here”.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I agree. Along those lines, we could consider renaming __LINE__ and friends to #LINE</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>swift-evolution mailing list<br><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-evolution mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>