Ilya Nikokoshev ilyannn
dwineman
/ unscoped-method-calls
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January 8, 2016 12:02
Swift allows you to call instance methods from other instance methods with no scope prefix, indistinguishably from function calls. This leads to the dangerous situation of function calls being shadowed when identically-named instance methods are added to a base class.
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| // Derived class contains an instance method that calls a function foo() in its scope. | |
| class Base {} | |
| func foo() -> String { | |
| return "function foo()" | |
| } | |
| class Derived: Base { | |
| func bar() -> String { |