[swift-users] Future(of: self.references)?

[Rien]

I will often use this rule: If a scope need to use ‘self’ at least once, then I will always use ‘self’ in that scope.
Otherwise I won’t use ’self’ at all.

There are always exceptions though, first and foremost: if the usage of ‘self’ hinders understandability of the code (interferes with self documentation), then don’t use it.
Also the usage of ‘self’ in a guard statement does not count.

Mostly though I will try and avoid the necessity for using ’self’ at all. It often is an indication that names are not correct or not optimal. 

Regards,
Rien

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> On 23 May 2017, at 11:30, Tino Heth via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, sometimes it might be important that you are dealing with an instance variable, and in other cases, it's just clutter:
> struct Triangle {
> 	var a: Float
> 	var b: Float
> 	var c: Float
> 
> 	var isSquare: Bool {
> 		return self.a * self.a + self.b * self.b == self.c * self.c
> 	}
> 
> 	var isStillSquare: Bool {
> 		return a * a + b * b == c * c
> 	}
> }
> Imho the second variant is clearly better than the first, and it would be bad to enforce self.
> 
> My personal rule of thumb for this is: Use the self prefix for things that should change self, skip it for read-only access — but the exact "rules" are quite arcane, and I think the compiler shouldn't have to deal with complicated rules that still would fail to make everyone happy.
> So, I think the current approach is the best we can do.
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