Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
- Subject: Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:57:03 +0000
On Jun 21, 2015, at 03:24 , Stephane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Maybe I misinterpreted the presentations, but this is not a property
> of the language (i.e. Swift 2), it's the IDE that does this. Which
> means that would you edit Swift code in TextWrangler, you would still
> only have the verbose source file.
You are correct. One way of mitigating this would be to routinely create a protocol containing the public API.
However, an explicit rendering of the API brings back the problem we wanted to get rid of: having to type (and edit) the class definitions twice. Also, I’m not sure what happens when you’re using classes in a framework, because there isn’t a Swift file to open, protocol or not — AFAIK the framework’s public API is in the module file, and not in textual header files like Obj-C.
Perhaps the real answer is that code-editing text editors, to be useful for Swift, will need to become aware of the need to show generated interfaces (just like they’ve become aware of the need for syntax coloring according to language), and add the ability to show the generated interface to their feature set. With the open-sourcing of Swift, it should be possible for editors to acquire the syntax analysis as a library, which at least makes the idea feasible.
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| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Roland King <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? (From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>) |