@avaliable and #avaliable

James_Campbell · 2016-02-04T15:05:58.000Z

How come avaliable sometimes has a @ and a #

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Jean-Daniel1 · 2016-02-04T15:48:01.000Z

It depends it you talk about the @vailable attribute used to annotate methods, or the #available runtime check used to choose a code path depending the OS version.

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Mark_Glossop · 2016-02-06T15:16:06.000Z

Worth watching this session from WWDC '15 - the first 20 minutes covers checking and using APIs for availability using @available and #available:

WWDC15 - Videos - Apple Developer

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James_Campbell · 2016-02-04T15:53:57.000Z

Just in general. I've been told that # is being seen as a convention for
the compiler to treat it like a macro but we have @avaliable and you're
saying #avaliable isn't even a compiler check.

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <mailing@xenonium.com> wrote:

It depends it you talk about the @vailable attribute used to annotate
methods, or the #available runtime check used to choose a code path
depending the OS version.

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Jean-Daniel1 · 2016-02-04T16:02:27.000Z

# as seen a convention for compiler generated code. #line expands to a String, #available expands to a runtime check that represent a bool.

I don’t see what’s wrong with that.

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Just in general. I've been told that # is being seen as a convention for the compiler to treat it like a macro but we have @avaliable and you're saying #avaliable isn't even a compiler check.

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jrose · 2016-02-04T18:06:55.000Z

Right. @available doesn't do anything at run time; it just lets the compiler enforce availability restrictions. Additionally, it's attached to a particular declaration, so it fits in the existing attribute model.

#available, on the other hand, can turn into a dynamic check, and it can happen anywhere in code. It's not just a dynamic check, though; it also participates in the compiler's availability model. So we needed a new kind of thing that could handle this use case.

Hope that helps clear things up.

Jordan

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On Feb 4, 2016, at 8:02 , Jean-Daniel Dupas via swift-evolution swift-evolution@swift.org wrote:

as seen a convention for compiler generated code. #line expands to a String, #available expands to a runtime check that represent a bool.

I don’t see what’s wrong with that.

Le 4 févr. 2016 à 16:53, James Campbell via swift-evolution swift-evolution@swift.org a écrit :

Just in general. I've been told that # is being seen as a convention for the compiler to treat it like a macro but we have @avaliable and you're saying #avaliable isn't even a compiler check.

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas mailing@xenonium.com wrote:

It depends it you talk about the @vailable attribute used to annotate methods, or the #available runtime check used to choose a code path depending the OS version.

Le 4 févr. 2016 à 16:05, James Campbell via swift-evolution swift-evolution@swift.org a écrit :

How come avaliable sometimes has a @ and a #
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