Hi Swift community,
I was wondering if bridging Objective-C’s @compatibility_alias to Swift’s
typealias is something that we have considered adding support for.
For example, @compatibility_alias is useful for things like adding an alias
like DCColor for UIColor and NSColor depending on the target. Here’s an
example from our codebase:
// For color compatibility, we alias DCColor to the appropriate class
#if DC_TARGET_MOBILE
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor UIColor;
#else
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor NSColor;
#endif
We expected DCColor to be exposed to our Swift code, but it turns out that
it is not. I’d imagine that we’re not the only ones using
@compatibility_alias for similar things and other things that are useful.
It would be really cool to see seamless bridging between
@compatibility_alias and typealias, especially since we’ve seen a lot of
other great backwards compatibility features in Swift 3.0 like importing
lightweight-generics and #keyPath.
Thanks for reading! :D
Ayaka
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+1. Robert and I are toying with an implementation right now; it’s really straightforward.
— Harlan
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On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Ayaka Nonaka via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Hi Swift community,
I was wondering if bridging Objective-C’s @compatibility_alias to Swift’s typealias is something that we have considered adding support for.
For example, @compatibility_alias is useful for things like adding an alias like DCColor for UIColor and NSColor depending on the target. Here’s an example from our codebase:
// For color compatibility, we alias DCColor to the appropriate class
if DC_TARGET_MOBILE
import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor UIColor;
#else
import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor NSColor;
#endif
We expected DCColor to be exposed to our Swift code, but it turns out that it is not. I’d imagine that we’re not the only ones using @compatibility_alias for similar things and other things that are useful. It would be really cool to see seamless bridging between @compatibility_alias and typealias, especially since we’ve seen a lot of other great backwards compatibility features in Swift 3.0 like importing lightweight-generics and keypath.
Thanks for reading! :D
Ayaka
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It definitely makes sense for @compatibility_alias to map to ‘typealias’, and I’d consider it a bug fix that doesn’t need a proposal. Thanks for bringing this up! I had no idea anyone knew about or used @compatibility_alias...
- Doug
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On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Ayaka Nonaka via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Hi Swift community,
I was wondering if bridging Objective-C’s @compatibility_alias to Swift’s typealias is something that we have considered adding support for.
For example, @compatibility_alias is useful for things like adding an alias like DCColor for UIColor and NSColor depending on the target. Here’s an example from our codebase:
// For color compatibility, we alias DCColor to the appropriate class
if DC_TARGET_MOBILE
import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor UIColor;
#else
import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor NSColor;
#endif
We expected DCColor to be exposed to our Swift code, but it turns out that it is not. I’d imagine that we’re not the only ones using @compatibility_alias for similar things and other things that are useful. It would be really cool to see seamless bridging between @compatibility_alias and typealias, especially since we’ve seen a lot of other great backwards compatibility features in Swift 3.0 like importing lightweight-generics and keypath.
That’s so great to hear. Thank you! :)
···
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Harlan Haskins <harlan@harlanhaskins.com> wrote:
+1. Robert and I are toying with an implementation right now; it’s really
straightforward.
— Harlan
On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Ayaka Nonaka via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Hi Swift community,
I was wondering if bridging Objective-C’s @compatibility_alias to Swift’s
typealias is something that we have considered adding support for.
For example, @compatibility_alias is useful for things like adding an
alias like DCColor for UIColor and NSColor depending on the target.
Here’s an example from our codebase:
// For color compatibility, we alias DCColor to the appropriate class
if DC_TARGET_MOBILE
import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor UIColor;
#else
import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor NSColor;
#endif
We expected DCColor to be exposed to our Swift code, but it turns out
that it is not. I’d imagine that we’re not the only ones using
@compatibility_alias for similar things and other things that are useful.
It would be really cool to see seamless bridging between
@compatibility_alias and typealias, especially since we’ve seen a lot of
other great backwards compatibility features in Swift 3.0 like importing
lightweight-generics and keypath.
Thanks for reading! :D
Ayaka
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Andrew
(Andrew Bennett)
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+1 I was just thinking the same thing a few days ago, thanks for bringing
it up!
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On Friday, 1 July 2016, Sean Heber via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
Makes sense to me!
l8r
Sean
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On Jun 30, 2016, at 5:16 PM, Ayaka Nonaka via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');>> wrote:
Hi Swift community,
I was wondering if bridging Objective-C’s @compatibility_alias to Swift’s
typealias is something that we have considered adding support for.
For example, @compatibility_alias is useful for things like adding an
alias like DCColor for UIColor and NSColor depending on the target.
Here’s an example from our codebase:
// For color compatibility, we alias DCColor to the appropriate class
if DC_TARGET_MOBILE
import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor UIColor;
#else
import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@compatibility_alias DCColor NSColor;
#endif
We expected DCColor to be exposed to our Swift code, but it turns out
that it is not. I’d imagine that we’re not the only ones using
@compatibility_alias for similar things and other things that are useful.
It would be really cool to see seamless bridging between
@compatibility_alias and typealias, especially since we’ve seen a lot of
other great backwards compatibility features in Swift 3.0 like importing
lightweight-generics and keypath.
Thanks for reading! :D
Ayaka
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@ayanonagon <https://twitter.com/ayanonagon> | www.ayaka.me
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