Yes, exactly, that’s a great summary of the proposal!

> El 25 mar 2016, a las 12:25, Haravikk <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
> 
>> On 25 Mar 2016, at 09:56, Carlos Rodríguez Domínguez via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The key of this proposal is that the struct/class should come from outside 
>> any swift source code, that is, either imported by the compiler from C, or 
>> auto-generated from any external tool (i.e., a CoreData autogenerated class 
>> from a graphically specified data model). Of course, in well written 
>> structures (as specified by Paul Ossenbruggen) we shouldn’t have any need 
>> for this proposal. However, many C structures make use of a raw type instead 
>> of an enum type, but specifying (through the associated documentation, not 
>> by any type enforcement) that only a set of enum values are allowed. 
>> Consequently, the resulting code making use of those structures becomes 
>> highly error prone, and, particularly in swift, very “old-style” code and 
>> difficult to understand for newcomers.
>> 
>> Again, I would like to highlight that my proposal intends to avoid as much 
>> as possible the use of enums’ raw values.
> 
> I think I may be similarly misunderstanding your proposal; your intention 
> then is to import the type as an enum with raw value (to facilitate the 
> conversion to/from the C code) but without exposing that raw value on the 
> Swift side?
> 
> In that case I think I’m in favour.

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