> On Apr 4, 2016, at 6:27 PM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > Is a solution to this actually making the leading dot mean enum lookup, full > stop and allowing `Self.foo`? The case that that doesn't cover is static > members on a type other than `Self`. I use it to great effect for standard > instances of types, so I would appreciate *some* facility to provide that, > but it doesn't have to be a leading dot if we can think of a way which is > less problematic. > > I am simply spitballing here but would > 1 period for enum look up > 2 periods for static member lookup > > or something similar be a solution? It doesn't use another character or > keyword and it makes it clear which feature is being used.
I don't see any reason for a split here. Enum cases *are* static members, they just happen to be the ones people encounter most often. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
