> On Aug 25, 2016, at 14:58, Douglas Gregor <dgre...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com 
>> <mailto:jordan_r...@apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 9:38, Douglas Gregor <dgre...@apple.com 
>>> <mailto:dgre...@apple.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_r...@apple.com 
>>>> <mailto:jordan_r...@apple.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey, all. I’m here to propose predefining a macro __swift__ when C code is 
>>>> compiled with Swift. We’ve gotten a few requests for it in the past and 
>>>> haven’t done it so that people don’t write header files that arbitrarily 
>>>> restrict features when used from Swift, or check for "Swift" when they 
>>>> really should be checking for modules support, or Objective-C mode, or 
>>>> nullability support. (Or worse, they guard code under __swift__ and then 
>>>> don’t ever test it, leading to failures to import the module from Swift.)
>>>> 
>>>> However, with Swift 3, it’s now become important for Objective-C authors 
>>>> to be able to control how their APIs look in modern Swift 3 without 
>>>> disrupting existing clients on Swift 2.3. (Or just because Swift 3 style 
>>>> looks out-of-place in Swift 2.3.) The most obvious way to do this would be 
>>>> to define a macro that has the Swift version in it. For Swift version 
>>>> X.Y.Z, we could use something like
>>>> 
>>>> -D__swift__=XYYZZ
>>>> 
>>>> e.g.
>>>> 
>>>> -D__swift__=30001
>>>> 
>>>> for Swift 3.0.1.
>>>> 
>>>> This is option (1). 
>>> 
>>> Option (1) sounds good to me. We don’t need to make this complicated.
>> 
>> Okay. Next question: two digits or three digits for the minor and patch 
>> versions?
>> 
>> - Two digits: if we ever switch to year/month combinations like C/C++, those 
>> will be higher values (unless we get to Swift 20 first).
>> - Three digits: better for "fake" versions like 3.0.100.
> 
> 
> I think we can just stick with 2 digits.

Okay. PR here: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/4510/ 
<https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/4510/>.

Jordan

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