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Re: Why can't Swift instance methods call class methods without qualification?
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Re: Why can't Swift instance methods call class methods without qualification?


  • Subject: Re: Why can't Swift instance methods call class methods without qualification?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:33:41 -0500

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016, at 07:20 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
> Why can my instance methods not call class methods without the class
> specifier?
>
> class MyClass
> {
>     func
>     foo()
>     {
>         classMethod()
>     }
>
>     class
>     func
>     classMethod()
>     {
>     }
> }
>
> Why do I have to call MyClass.classMethod()? Just a choice made by the
> language designers to distinguish the call at the call site? I like C++'s
> way of treating all static methods as directly available to the instance.

The official swift-users list might be a better place to ask this
question:

https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users

--Kyle Sluder

>
> --
> Rick Mann
> email@hidden
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