On Aug 5, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to be able to write code like this:
> 
> enum MyNotifications : String {
>    case Note1         = "note1"
>    case Note2         = "note2"
> }
> 
> let nc = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter()
> nc.postNotificationName(MyNotifications.Note1, nil)
> 
> But Swift (2.0) doesn't let me do that. Is it possible to write an extension 
> method to NSNotificationCenter that accepts "any enum derived from String" 
> (or that's convertible to String, or something like that)? e.g.:
> 
>    func postNotification(inName : enum:String)
> 
> I tried doing this: http://pastebin.com/kXLEHu8f 
> <http://pastebin.com/kXLEHu8f>
> 
> But it gets multiple errors, as you can see.
> 
> Is there an elegant way to do this? Seems counter-intuitive that I can't pass 
> a derived enum in place of an ancestral type.

AFAIK there’s no way to do exactly what you’re asking for, but you could put a 
post() method on the enum itself.

Charles

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