> On Nov 25, 2015, at 01:04 , Quincey Morris 
> <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> In a technical sense, the reason is probably that Swift allows class/static 
> and instance members to have the same name, presumably because it has to 
> support Obj-C methods, where the same thing can happen. That means there’s a 
> danger of ambiguity, and it was probably decided that the clunkier 
> disambiguation would lead to fewer programmer errors.

Still seems like Swift could use some scope resolution, and just complain if 
it's ambiguous.

Anyway, thanks. I'll write it up as a feature request.

-- 
Rick Mann
rm...@latencyzero.com



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