[swift-users] Why can't Swift instance methods call class methods without qualification?

[Jens Alfke]

> On Jul 1, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> The problem is, you can never be sure what was intended in the method two(), below:

Sure you can. It’s easy to tell that it calls the instance method, because if it were calling the class method there would have to be a “Foo.” in front of it.

You’re first arguing that class-method calls should have the same syntax as instance-method calls, and then complaining that having class and instance methods with the same name is ambiguous … but the reason for the ambiguity is because they’d be hard to tell apart using your proposed syntax. That’s not coherent.

—Jens
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