<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">As you may know we can nest types for shiny namespacing (protocol nesting might follow in Swift 3 as well).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">What if we could create Types separated by a `.` character to determine that this is a nested type to stop building type pyramides, which could be/look ugly in some cases.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Imagine SomeClass and NestedClass are some huge and complex types. It might become hard to read if we had to build them in place just for good namespacing.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">class SomeClass {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> class NestedClass {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> enum Error {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> }</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> enum Error {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Split this to something like this:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">class SomeClass {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">enum SomeClass.Error {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">class SomeClass.NestedClass {</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> enum Error {} // nesting is still allowed</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Extensions already allow that.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">extension SomeClass.NestedType {}</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">What do you think? Is it something for Swift 3?</div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1463061423933486080" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div></body></html>