<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=""><div class="">Bug report filed with warning emitting request: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4174" class="">https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4174</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 1, 2017, at 1:58 PM, Pyry Jahkola <<a href="mailto:pyry.jahkola@iki.fi" class="">pyry.jahkola@iki.fi</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="">I guess I should also include the example where the user actually wanted the oldValue to be "x":<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <b class="">if case let</b> .two(newValue, value) = example, </font><span style="font-family: Menlo;" class="">value == oldValue</span><span style="font-family: Menlo;" class=""> { ... }</span></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">No surprises there, even if another conditional is required.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Pyry</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Mar 2017, at 22.53, Pyry Jahkola 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="" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;">Erica,</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;"><br class=""></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Instead of going into all these lengths introducing new syntax, why not simply turn it into a warning when a `</span><b class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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;">case let</b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">` binding shadows an existing variable with the exact same type (which supposedly also conforms to Equatable)?</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;">Examples, including how to silence the said warning:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">enum</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Value<T> {<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">case</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one(T), two(T, T), three(T, T, T) }</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>example: </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">Value<String></span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;"> = .two("a", "b")</span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>oldValue = "x"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> // (Besides, you probably intended </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class="">oldValue</font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> to be a </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class="">Character</font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> in your</font></div><div class=""><font color="#929292" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> // </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">example. </span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">Well, it's a </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font color="#929292" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">String</span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font color="#929292" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;"> in mine.)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">if case let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.two(newValue, oldValue) = example { ... }</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> // ~~~~~~~~</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><b class=""><font color="#929292" class=""> //<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>warning:<font color="#929292" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'oldValue' shadows an existing variable of same type 'String'</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">if case let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.two(newValue, (oldValue)) = example { </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">assert(oldValue == "b") </span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">}</span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> // Ok, adding extra parentheses silences the warning.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">if case let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.one(example) = example { ... }</font></div><div class=""><font color="#929292" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> // Ok, because there's no way the author would equate the </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">example: String</span><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#929292" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> // in the LHS to the </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" class="">example: Value<String></font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" class=""> of the RHS.</font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>maybe: Optional = "perhaps"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">if case let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>maybe? = maybe { ... }</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">if case let</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.some(maybe) = maybe { ... }</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" color="#929292" class=""> // Again, none of these examples would be affected by the warning, because</font></div><div class=""><font color="#929292" class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> // the </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" class="">maybe: String</font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" class=""> bound in the </font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">`</span><font face="Menlo" class="">case let</font><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;">` has a different type than</span></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo;"><font color="#929292" class=""> // the `maybe: String?` in the outer scope.</font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally, I do like the convenience that I can bind several variables with one `<b class="">let</b>` keyword in a case expression. And I can't see the appeal to making `~=`, let alone a completely new special-syntax assignment operator, more prominent in Swift.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Pyry</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Feb 2017, at 21.01, Erica Sadun 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="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The following draft proposal addresses one matter of substance (eliminating edge case errors by adopting at-site conditional binding) and one of style (using the pattern match operator consistently). Its discussion was deferred from Phase 1 and remains in a fairly early stage. Your feedback will help me decide whether this is a proposal I want to keep developing or one that I should set aside and focus on other matters. Thank you. -- E<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The work-in-progress gist is here: <a href="https://gist.github.com/erica/06dad9bbe1a70290fe6b89a64f73bc0c" class="">https://gist.github.com/erica/06dad9bbe1a70290fe6b89a64f73bc0c</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.25; padding-bottom: 0.3em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px !important;">Simplifying case syntax</h1><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Proposal: TBD</li><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Author: <a href="https://github.com/erica" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none;">Erica Sadun</a></li><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Status: TBD</li><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 1.25; padding-bottom: 0.3em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="user-content-introduction" class="anchor" href="https://gist.github.com/erica/06dad9bbe1a70290fe6b89a64f73bc0c#introduction" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none; float: left; padding-right: 4px; margin-left: -20px; line-height: 1;"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Introduction</h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This proposal re-architects case syntax grammar to reduce potential errors and simplify unwrapping enumerations. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Swift-evolution thread: <a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20161024/tbd.html" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none;">[Pitch] Reimagining <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">guard case</code>/<code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">if case</code></a></p><h2 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 1.25; padding-bottom: 0.3em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="user-content-motivation" class="anchor" href="https://gist.github.com/erica/06dad9bbe1a70290fe6b89a64f73bc0c#motivation" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none; float: left; padding-right: 4px; margin-left: -20px; line-height: 1;"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Motivation</h2><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In its current design, Swift case binding suffers from two weaknesses.</p><ul class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mixed external and internal <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">let</code>/<code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">var</code> binding may introduce errors from uncommon edge cases.</li><li class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Real-world users may not consider the parallel construction between <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">if case</code>/<code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">guard case</code> with <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">switch</code>statements or naturally connect the two layouts.</li></ul><h3 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="user-content-internal-case-binding" class="anchor" href="https://gist.github.com/erica/06dad9bbe1a70290fe6b89a64f73bc0c#internal-case-binding" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: objects; color: rgb(64, 120, 192); text-decoration: none; float: left; padding-right: 4px; margin-left: -20px; line-height: 1;"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Internal Case Binding</h3><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When pattern matching, it's common to bind a variable or constant. It's uncommon but legal to use a bound value as an argument. Adopting an "always explicit, always within the parentheses" rule adds consistency and safety to Swift. </p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Consider the following enumeration and values:</p><div class="highlight highlight-source-swift" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.45; word-wrap: normal; padding: 16px; overflow: auto; 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-break: normal;"><span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"><span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box;">//</span> An enum with one, two, or three associated values</span>
<span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"></span><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">enum</span> <span class="pl-en" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(121, 93, 163);">Value</span><<span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">T</span>> { <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">case</span> <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">one</span>(T), <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">two</span>(T, T), <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">three</span>(T, T, T) }
<span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"><span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box;">//</span> An example with two associated values</span>
<span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"></span><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">let</span> example2<span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">:</span> <span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">Value</span><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);"><</span><span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">Character</span><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">></span> <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">=</span> .<span class="pl-c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 134, 179);">two</span>(<span class="pl-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(24, 54, 145);"><span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span>a<span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span></span>, <span class="pl-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(24, 54, 145);"><span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span>b<span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span></span>)
<span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"><span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box;">//</span> A bound symbol</span>
<span class="pl-c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(150, 152, 150);"></span><span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">let</span> oldValue <span class="pl-k" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(167, 29, 93);">=</span> <span class="pl-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(24, 54, 145);"><span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span>x<span class="pl-pds" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span></span></pre></div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This code's goal is to conditionally bind <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">newValue</code> and pattern match the value stored in the <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">oldValue</code> symbol. The first example succeeds. The second example compiles and runs but does not match the coder's intent. Using an external <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">let</code>creates a new <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">oldValue</code> shadow instead of pattern matching <code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; padding: 0.2em 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0392157); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;">oldValue</code>'s stored value.</p><pre class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 1.45; word-wrap: normal; padding: 16px; overflow: auto; 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; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-break: normal; border: 0px; display: inline; overflow: visible; line-height: inherit; word-wrap: normal;">// Safe
if case .two(let newValue, oldValue) = example2 {
...
}
// Syntactically legal but incorrect
if case let .two(newValue, oldValue) = example2 {
...
}</code></pre></div></div></div></div></blockquote>(…)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;" class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; 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;" class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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