[swift-users] Custom operators in a framework

Jordan Rose jordan_rose at apple.com
Fri Feb 3 11:36:10 CST 2017


The operator itself. If you’re not seeing that behavior, that’s a bug! Do you have a small test case that reproduces it? (I guess it would take two modules regardless, so either a SwiftPM package or an Xcode project would do it.)

Jordan

> On Feb 3, 2017, at 09:34, Rien <Rien at Balancingrock.nl> wrote:
> 
> Are you referring to the definition of the operator (infix…) or the availability of the function that defines the operator?
> 
> The functions are available, but I have to repeat the “infix…" everywhere I need them.
> 
> I.e. I have a:
> 
> infix operator &=
> 
> And when I use that from another module I get “Operator is not a known binary operator”
> 
> Once I repeat the "infix operator &=“ at the start of the file it works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Rien
> 
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>> On 03 Feb 2017, at 18:14, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Operator declarations are actually public all the time, not internal. That’s itself probably a bug, but not the world-limiting one you’re concerned about.
>> 
>> Jordan
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 3, 2017, at 01:18, Rien via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is possible to define custom operators in a framework, but it is not possible to assign access levels to them.
>>> 
>>> As a consequence they are module internal and cannot be used outside the framework.
>>> 
>>> Each project needs to redefine the custom operators in order to use them in that project.
>>> 
>>> What is the rationale behind that?
>>> 
>>> Or is it a bug?
>>> 
>>> Are there other ways to accomplish this?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Rien
>>> 
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