Maybe it would be nice if we preferred getters instead? Since I (making a
totally unfounded assumption) assume that would be used more. But either way, I
just wanted to show a quick example of the problem, I'm personally less worried
about the exact syntax.
--
Keith Smiley
On 03/15, David Hart wrote:
> Wouldn't it be:
>
> #selector(getter: NSString.lowercaseString))
>
> To allow us to disambiguate getters and setters?
>
> > On 15 Mar 2016, at 06:09, Keith Smiley <keithbsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Another reasonable use case for this is with `UILocalizedIndexedCollation`.
> > For example with Swift 2.1:
> >
> > ```
> > let collation = UILocalizedIndexedCollation.currentCollation()
> > collation.sectionForObject("something", collationStringSelector:
> > "lowercaseString") // NSString.lowercaseString
> > ```
> >
> > Currently the Xcode quickfix is:
> >
> > ```
> > collation.sectionForObject("something", collationStringSelector:
> > Selector("lowercaseString"))
> > ```
> >
> > But I guess ideally this would work something like:
> >
> > ```
> > collation.sectionForObject("something", collationStringSelector:
> > #selector(NSString.lowercaseString))
> >
> > --
> > Keith Smiley
> >
> > On 02/24, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution wrote:
> >>> Motivation
> >>>
> >>> The #selector feature is very useful but does not yet cover all cases.
> >>> Accessing poperty getter and setters requires to drop down to the string
> >>> syntax and forgo type-safety. This proposal supports this special case
> >>> without introducing new syntax, but by introducing new overloads to the
> >>> #selector compiler expression.
> >>
> >> What I don't understand is, what's the use case? When you want to access
> >> properties dynamically in Objective-C, you usually use key-value coding,
> >> not selectors. Can you point to APIs it would be helpful to use this with,
> >> or write some realistic code which uses this feature? Or is this basically
> >> just completeness for the sake of completeness?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brent Royal-Gordon
> >> Architechies
> >>
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