> On Jul 18, 2017, at 15:56, Slava Pestov via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > >> On Jul 18, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Chris McIntyre <nothingwasdelive...@gmail.com >> <mailto:nothingwasdelive...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Was it ever explained why the syntax is different? >> > > Oh. I think convenience initializers on classes are marked as such explicitly > because convenience vs designated has an effect on the ABI of an initializer, > for the purposes of inheritance. With a value type, it doesn’t change > anything about how the initializer is used externally. > > Yeah, probably the AST printer should not print the ‘convenience’ keyword on > non-class initializers.
FWIW I tried to stop doing this in the actual AST representation and it caused problems (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/8540/commits/4f6e88b009ad07edd35343c2c9b758f03029a731 <https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/8540>). That's probably the right way for us to go for real, though, not just hiding the kind in the printer. Jordan
_______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
