I filed a GitHub issue but it was suggested this might need to go through evolution.
Can file:line:-line default parameters be added to dynamic member lookup subscripts? It'd be super useful for surfacing the source context of an issue through to the dynamic caller in question.
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Yonas_Kolb
(Yonas Kolb)
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I would find this very useful too, big plus 1
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Jon_Shier
(Jon Shier)
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In general it would be nice to loosen the requirements around the dynamic member lookup. Right now it fails with subscript<T>(dynamicMember: KeyPath<Self, T>) but succeeds with subscript<T>(dynamicMember dynamicMember: KeyPath<Self, T>) which seems more specific than any other lookup I've seen. Being able to apply the general shape of the simple lookup with other defaulted parameters would be nice.
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Jumhyn
(Frederick Kellison-Linn)
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Isn't this just a product of the fact that subscript<T>(dynamicMember: KeyPath<Self, T>) declares a subscript whose external name is subscript(_:)? You're allowed to rename the (inner) parameter name as you see fit for dynamic member lookup, so I wouldn't want it to be the case that any unlabeled subscript which accepts a String (or KeyPath) argument to be considered a 'match' for the purposes of dynamic member lookup.
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Jon_Shier
(Jon Shier)
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Ah yes, I forgot that the subscript naming rules are different from funcs.
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Jumhyn
(Frederick Kellison-Linn)
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Yeah, that's its own can of worms, taking the naming rules for subscripts as given I think the 'matching' here is behaving appropriately.
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Beyond DML, I think it'd be nice to extend file:line: support to otherwise protocol conforming methods.
davedelong
(Dave DeLong)
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This is very much related to the desire I've had for several years that operator functions should accept file: and line: for capturing point-of-use info.
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jrose
(Jordan Rose)
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This is the best argument I’ve seen thus far that these shouldn’t be represented as parameters, because the calling convention for a protocol method doesn’t have any place to put extra parameters. :-( Then again, sometimes you do want to propagate file/line info, so simply doing something besides parameters wouldn’t necessarily work either.
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