> Le 8 avr. 2016 à 14:47, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Interesting proposal, but I wanted to mention a couple of potential issues 
> off the top of my head.  I know when I was using optional requirements in 
> Objective C, I would often use the presence/lack of the method (not just 
> whether it returned nil) in the logic of my program.  I used the presence of 
> a method as a way for the implementor of a delegate to naturally communicate 
> whether they wanted a more advanced feature.  The absence of the method 
> itself is information which can be utilized, not just whether it returns nil, 
> and I believe that is part of what people are asking for when they say they 
> want optional methods in Swift.
> 

Couldn’t agree more.

An telling example is 
NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate.controller(_:didChangeObject:atIndexPath:forChangeType:newIndexPath:).

When this method is not implemented, the NSFetchedResultsController does not 
have to perform the heavy computations of individual changes in a Core Data 
fetch request, since nobody is listening to them.

In today’s Swift, this lazy behavior requires an extra configuration flag.

Gwendal Roué

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