Include NSTimer in block?

[efremidze]

What are your thoughts about including the timer object in the block?

public class func every(interval: NSTimeInterval, _ block: NSTimer -> Void) -> NSTimer{}

Otherwise I need to declare the variable separately like this:

var timer: NSTimer?
timer = NSTimer.every(5.seconds){
 timer?.invalidate()
}

[radex]

@efremidze Hey, I'm not against this, but I don't want the passed timer object to be required. Often times, I really don't care about it, because I'm going to assign it to a property anyway.

Take a look at #8. Last time someone took a look at it, there was no way to have both without errors about ambiguity.

But that was a while ago. If you can make both:

NSTimer.every(5.seconds){
 // whatever
}

and

NSTimer.every(5.seconds){timer in
 // whatever
}

work, I'd accept such a PR in an instant.

[efremidze]

Thats currently a limitation in Swift. Lets wait until Swift 3. 😃

[radex]

You could help by filing a bug on bugs.swift.org :)

[efremidze]

good idea 👍

[radex]

I'll keep it open in case someone is looking for this ;)

[radex]

Added on master. Unfortunately if you want the timer passed in, you have to say {(timer: NSTimer} in ... }, but hey, it works!

[efremidze]

thanks 👍