rjmccall added a comment.

In D61147#1479940 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D61147#1479940>, @erik.pilkington 
wrote:

> In D61147#1479932 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D61147#1479932>, @rjmccall wrote:
>
> > I do not think the ObjC version of this diagnostic is useful as it's been 
> > explained here, and I would strongly recommend just not including such a 
> > warning for the time being.
>
>
> Why? It seems to me like the vast majority of methods only declared in an 
> `@implementation` are used as local helpers (even if people probably should 
> be using functions for this), where this warning would be useful. Maybe I'm 
> missing something? Still trying to learn more about Objective-C.


What rule are you suggesting for whether a method is "only declared in an 
`@implementation`"?  Where exactly are you proposing to look for other 
declarations?

Objective-C does not have a formalized notion of an `@implementation`-private 
method, or really even an unambiguous convention for them (underscoring is 
*library*-private by convention, not class-private).  The Objective-C ecosystem 
includes a lot of informal protocols and conventions based around discovery via 
naming, and Objective-C programmers do (admittedly rarely) just override 
methods that they know are there but which they can't see.  These things make 
me very worried about trying to port assumptions from other languages.

Anyway, put that aside for a minute.  As I understand it, your current proposal 
is to make `-Wunused-parameter` not fire on the majority of Objective-C methods 
and then add a new `-Wunused-objc-parameter` warning that's not really formally 
related to `-Wunused-parameter`.  I think the right way to think about that is 
that the new warning is an independent feature which can happen at its own 
pace.  You will need to do some investigation in order to implement that 
feature, so in the short term, you should just not warn about unused parameters 
in Objective-C methods, and then you can do the investigation for generalizing 
the warning as time permits.


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