<div dir="ltr">Hey Jordan,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the time writing this up. I&#39;ve been following along to the discussion somewhat closely and have kept silent because `exhaustive` was originally set to be the default for enums. However, that changed and so I&#39;d like to voice my opinion, I frankly don&#39;t like this idea.</div><div><br></div><div>At remind we use algebraic data types religiously for managing state and data and rely on exhaustive pattern matching to guarantee we&#39;re handling all states in our code. We&#39;re splitting out our code across modules and having this guarantee has been a joy to work with.</div><div><br></div><div>The benefit of making nonexhaustive the default for Swift 5 across all multi-module code (besides C code) seems minimal to me. If a developer feels like they&#39;re unnecessarily managing enum cases, they can simply add a `default` case whenever they please. This is already the case and I&#39;m curious if there&#39;s every been any complaints about this and what they would be. I&#39;d prefer to be cautious and force exhaustive pattern matching in all possible cases and leave it up to the developer to choose not to.</div><div><br></div><div>Ideally in my mind, these keywords won&#39;t be necessary. All Swift enums will remain as they are, exhaustively pattern matched by default. Enums from C code will be explicitly nonexhaustive in all cases.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rex Fenley</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">|</span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IOS DEVELOPER</span><br></p></span><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xMgzw3JkFL3DLkdwyq0WxJzKs_XP57gVVCaBMvgi1FKCjSeue0xdx3JZeCWBlxN4KRHhHOfdvJbc1N-AjTwXcKIq4cjJg9H7iaFpQ8WbO4N3c9Y5dzi19cPOs_owPquuqw" width="250px;" height="53px;" style="border:none"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.remind.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Remind.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">|  </span><a href="http://blog.remind.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">BLOG</span></a><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">  |  </span><a href="https://twitter.com/remindhq" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">FOLLOW US</span></a><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">  | </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/remindhq" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">LIKE US</a></span></p></span></div></div>
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