Do you have a link to your proposal? Thanks, Brandon
> On May 16, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Matthew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On May 16, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Michael Peternell via swift-evolution >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Why not just use a (documentation) comment? >> >> /// The Lifecycle extension: >> extension ViewController { > > There have been discussions about possibly allowing extensions to have stored > properties in the future. If that comes to pass it may well be useful for > extensions to have a name that can be used to refer to the extension during > initialization. I discussed possible syntax for that in my draft proposal > for partial initializers (which I tabled for Swift 3, but may revive in the > future). > > >> ... >> >> -Michael >> >>> Am 16.05.2016 um 18:26 schrieb Brandon Knope via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected]>: >>> >>> I like to separate methods into their own logical extensions so similar >>> methods are grouped together. I do this mostly with Cocoa Touch where I >>> like all view life cycle methods to be in the same extension: >>> >>> extension ViewController { >>> override func viewDidLoad() { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewDidDisappear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> } >>> >>> You can document this somewhat by adding a MARK comment: >>> >>> // MARK: Lifecylce >>> extension ViewController { >>> override func viewDidLoad() { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewDidDisappear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> } >>> >>> What if we made this more self-documenting by elevating this to a language >>> feature? >>> >>> extension ViewController named Lifecycle { >>> override func viewDidLoad() { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> >>> override func viewDidDisappear(animated: Bool) { >>> } >>> } >>> >>> Other ways: >>> extension named Lifecycle ViewController { } >>> extension named “View Lifecycle" ViewController { } >>> extension ViewController named “Multi word description” { } >>> >>> >>> For now, this is purely a documenting feature (i.e. Can’t refer to the >>> extension name dynamically or statically in actual code). I think it plays >>> much more naturally with Swift than requiring this to be in the comments >>> and would work across all IDEs and make it easier for people to find a >>> specific extension as well as making their code more self documenting. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brandon >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-evolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>
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