<div dir="ltr">The honest and lazy truth? Muscle memory. I type `case .<Foo>` much more than `case <Foo>` so I tend to pause during declaration more often than I would like. I can let it go now that I have floated the idea but that was the reason I pitched it.<div>TJ</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Erica Sadun 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"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Are there any reasons why it makes sense to add them to the declaration? There's no other place in the language where a member is declared (vs referenced) using a dot prefix so I'd personally lean towards "no". </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- Erica</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 11, 2016, at 11:41 PM, Carlos Parada <<a href="mailto:carlosparada@me.com" target="_blank">carlosparada@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Taking consistency further, should the definition also use dot prefixes? For example:<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">enum</span> Coin {
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">case</span> .Heads, .Tails
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(121,93,163)">printMe</span>() {
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">switch</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">self</span> {
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">case</span> .Heads: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">print</span>(<span style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span>"</span>Heads<span>"</span></span>)
<span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">case</span> <span style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>Tails: <span style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">print</span>(<span style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span>"</span>Tails<span>"</span></span>)
}
}
}</pre></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>— Carlos Parada</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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