> On Mar 11, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Edward Connell via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> It seems that an easy workaround would be an #include statement.
> The boiler plate can be put in a separate file and included wherever it's
> needed.
IMHO this seems like a surefire ‘design smell’ — if you have a use case where
you find yourself wanting a preprocessor to eliminate lots of redundant lines
in your source code, then either your code or the language you’re using have
serious problems.
(I see absolutely nothing wrong with inheritance, and it solves exactly this
sort of problem. Yes, structs can’t inherit, but they can contain a common
struct as a member, which is quite similar and addresses this issue.)
—Jens
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