On 05.07.2016 13:33, James Campbell via swift-evolution wrote:
Would love a real life scenario of why you would need this.

Some kind of pre-initialization(for GUI as example) for all possible kinds of values, that you should process then (for GUI - let's say add to needed list).


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On 4 July 2016 at 02:36, Gabriel Lanata via swift-evolution
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hello, this has been proposed multiple times before in different ways.

    Link to detailed proposal draft:
    
https://github.com/gabriellanata/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/NNNN-allow-enumerating-cases-in-enumerations.md

    It is currently not possible to enumerate through all the possible
    cases of an enumeration object without adding a hardcoded value or
    recurring to unsafe workarounds. The proposal is to add a method of
    obtaining an array or set of all the possible cases natively for
    enumerations without associated values.

    The proposed solution is to implement a native `.cases` static var for
    all enumerations without associated values. This would provide a strict
    type-safe way of enumerating though the possible cases without risking
    runtime errors. The resulting code is a lot cleaner and less prone to
    errors caused by forgetting to update the hardcoded values when
    modifying cases.

    Resulting code:

       enum PokemonType {
           case Fire, Grass, Water, Wind
       }
       for pokemonType in PokemonType.cases {
           // Do stuff
       }
       PokemonType.cases.count // Returns 4


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