[swift-users] Extensions

Brent Royal-Gordon brent at architechies.com
Sat May 13 20:32:21 CDT 2017


> On May 13, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Don Giovanni via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi I was wondering if i could get some suggestions on this:
> 
> extension CGPoint : Comparable
> {
>     static func <(l: CGPoint, r: CGPoint) ->     
>           Bool{
> return true;
> }
> 
>      static func ==(l: CGPoint, r: CGPoint) ->     
>            Bool{
>        return true;
> }
> }
> 
> CGPoint is a Core graphics struct. 
> This code gives me an error "Declaration is only valid at file scope". However per swift documentation, I cannot add an access modifier to extensions that adopt protocols.   I was wondering if there is an elegant workaround for this limitation or if there's something I'm missing here. 
> Thanks. 

Is this the only thing in the file, or is the extension nested inside something else? That's what that error usually means.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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