Thanks for the informative listing. So Swift offers refinements (not a paradigm shift like object orientation over functional), many of which could be added to ObjC, and many of which I wouldn’t want. I guess I was trying to find the main, overwhelming purpose driving the adoption of Swift. I think I was looking too high.
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:20 , Gary L. Wade <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com > <mailto:garyw...@desisoftsystems.com>> wrote: >> >> To answer your question, Swift adds […] > > To get more specific, I just made a quick pass through the Swift > documentation, and came up with the following list of things where Swift adds > useful functionality and/or features that we’ve been asking for for a long > time: > >> Massive elimination of source duplication >> Massive elimination of source boilerplate >> Value types as a programming paradigm >> Range operators (...) >> Grapheme-based Unicode strings >> Value-type strings >> Value-type collections >> Homogenous collection types (Obj-C has it now, more or less, but only >> because of Swift) >> Non-integer, non-literal switch case types >> Patterns in switch cases >> Explicit fall-through control of switch case types >> Switch case “protected scopes” eliminated >> Patterns in conditional cases >> Where clauses >> Label-targeted continue/break statements >> SDK API availability checking >> Overloadable functions >> Multiple function return values >> Parameter keywords in function calls >> Default parameter values >> Nested function declarations >> Closure expression syntax improvements >> Operator definitions >> Operator functions >> Enums are not ints >> Enum cases can have associated values >> Structs can have behavior (methods) >> Deterministic rules for initializer methods (calling and inheritance) >> Lazy stored properties >> Property observers >> Class properties >> Mutability controls >> Improved access controls >> Safe method overridability >> Override prevention >> Enhanced initializer behavior and syntax >> Automatic zombie detection >> Capture lists for closures >> Optionals >> Optional chaining and unwrapping >> Improved error handling model >> Scope-exit cleanup actions >> Safer type casting >> Nested types >> Safe class extensions >> Protocols are types >> Protocols can have default behavior (methods) >> Constrained protocols >> Generics > > That list doesn’t include benefits discussed elsewhere. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
