Hi Ewa!
In commit 93786d8e264d095256169a6a2552970ea785036f, you wrote: “Removing
isSwiftVersion4, isSwiftVersion5. We’ll need to come up with a better way to
conditionalize code based on language version.”
This is certainly true! I wondered what would happen as new versions came
along. :-)
It seems to me like the right approach is this:
bool isSwiftVersionLessThan(unsigned major, unsigned minor = 0);
// hopefully we’ll never need ’minor’ level precession
With such an API, bug fixes, version specific behavior, and future features are
easy to implement:
// Bug fixed in version 4
if (isSwiftVersionLessThan(4)) {
// old way
} else {
// new way
}
// Version 7 feature work
if (isSwiftVersionLessThan(7)) {
// pre feature logic
} else {
// new feature work logic
}
// Broken behavior specific to version 3 and 4, but not version 1, 2, and 5+
if (isSwiftVersionLessThan(5) && !isSwiftVersionLessThan(3)) {
// Swift 3 and 4 code
} else {
// normal path
}
Alternatively, the API could be “isSwiftVersionGreaterThanOrEqualTo()” but that
seems like a mouthful. Similarly, the API could be
“isSwiftVersionInHalfOpenRange()”, but that seems awkward because the future is
hopefully endless.
What to people think?
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