It’s been a while since I wrote any meaningful Swift. How I didn’t miss the Swift compiler’s bullshit error messages. That yields, on the popFirst() method: Cannot use mutating member on immutable value: ‘someArray’ is immutable. No it’s not. It’s simply not. For whatever reason, if you instead call popFirst() on ArraySlice – ostensibly indistinguishable from… Read more
In no particular order. The Hotline File Transfer Protocol v1.1.1. I presume I was interested in, or actively doing, a third party Hotline client. I did tend to make lots of data transfer clients back then (e.g. HTTP, FTP, even POP3 & SMTP). My little gallery of childhood toys & memorabilia. I hadn’t forgotten about this… Read more
I’d forgotten about this until I stumbled across a reference to it again recently. This was a little hack I worked on back in 2004, with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). Yes, kids, macOS was called Mac OS X back in ye Olden Times. Wow, Slashdot looked even uglier than I remember, back then. Though… Read more
swift/lib/Basic/LangOptions.cpp has most of the conditional compilation macros (called “Language Options” in the compiler internally). Notably the swift() version macro is absent, and doesn’t seem to be defined anywhere… At time of writing the two undocumented additions, to the os(), arch(), and swift() set, are _endian() and _runtime(). I have no idea if they’re useful… Read more
Sigh. The Swift team give an impeccable impression of a group of people who’ve never actually tried to use Swift. An incredibly basic compiler task is to provide code a way to distinguish between debug & release builds, in order that it can behave accordingly (e.g. change the default logging verbosity, change asserts from fatal to… Read more
This was a pleasant surprise: I’m not sure how useful it is, since I don’t typically turn to a search engine to run random Swift code, but hey, kudos for effort.
Input code: Push button. Expect results (or at least bacon). Get: Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected expression in list of expressions .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Believe it or… Read more