<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Nov 2016, at 14:55, Adrian Zubarev 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=""><div class="bloop_markdown" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);"><p style="margin: 15px 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">I’d rather would have the ability of overloading enum cases:</p><pre style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">enum MyEnum {
case a
case a(Int)
case a(label: Int)
case a(Double)
}
</code></pre><p style="margin: 15px 0px;" class="">I don’t know how enums work internally, but I spotted a bug recently where the compiler does not allow to declare a function with the same name as an enum case.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px;" class=""><a href="https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-3256" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">SR–3256</a></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px;" class="">I think this is a side effect of this proposal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0036-enum-dot.md" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0036-enum-dot.md</a></p><div style="margin: 15px 0px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>eek… I really would not like that at all.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>if case .a(let value) = myEnumValue {</div><div> // what is type(of: value)?</div><div>}</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- Karl</div><br class=""></body></html>