Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@concreteniche @jckarter That would be nice, but it doesn’t seem realistic to me. At least not on the time scale we need."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jul 18

@jckarter bad decision. Whereas the framework client, without the ability to override, has no recourse.
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Patrick Smith ‏@concreteniche Jul 18

@mjtsai @jckarter Hopefully though those frameworks are using value types, where they don’t get the ability to subclass/override anyway
Patrick Smith ‏@concreteniche Jul 18

@mjtsai @jckarter If framework authors used classes because clients are more comfortable and able to monkey patch, I think that’d be sad
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Patrick Smith ‏@concreteniche Jul 18

@mjtsai @jckarter AFAIK protocols would allow the most of same sorts of custom extending desired, and are explicitly designed to be so
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jul 18

@concreteniche @jckarter Probably not as flexible. And changing classes to protocols doesn’t make the design/thinking issues go away.
Joe Groff ‏@jckarter Jul 18

@mjtsai @concreteniche You can easily wrap a conforming type and patch or completely replace its conformance if you need to.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jul 18

@jckarter @concreteniche Yes, but patching from the outside is limited because you can’t override anything that’s not in the protocol.
Patrick Smith ‏@concreteniche Jul 18

@mjtsai @jckarter That sounds like private methods though?
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jul 18

@concreteniche @jckarter Yes, sometimes overriding private methods was (unfortunately) necessary. Already not possible with Swift.
Patrick Smith ‏@concreteniche Jul 18

@mjtsai @jckarter Necessary for us to fix needs to become instead necessary for Apple & other framework authors to fix

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@concreteniche @jckarter That would be nice, but it doesn’t seem realistic to me. At least not on the time scale we need.

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