<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Kevin Ballard 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=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">So I guess I’m saying, I want more thought put on the topic of whether enums defined in Swift should actually default to non-exhaustive, and I’m now leaning towards the idea that they should remain exhaustive (but Obj-C enums will still default to non-exhaustive).</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This would introduce an inconsistency between enums and structs. Structs will not be fixed-contents by default (there’s a proposal coming for that), which means you will be able to add stored properties after the fact. For this reason it makes more sense to me to also make enums non-exhaustive by default so that new cases can be added.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Slava</div></body></html>