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Summary:
A nice to have feature would be to get a string representation of an enum case, i.e. to ask it for its name.

Since each enum case already needs to have a unique name/descriptor, it should be possible to simple return that at runtime.

For example, given the following enum:

enum Foo {
    case Bar
}

let foo = Foo.Bar
let name = foo.caseName // "Bar"

No associated values or information about those would be included with the name.

This would allow conversion of all enum cases to a primitive representation without resorting to raw values or manually providing names for all cases. This can be useful for generating descriptions of enums, serialization, etc...

Obviously this also can/will be part of the reflection APIs provided for enum types in some way so it might not make much sense to include it separately.

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Version:
Xcode 6 - Beta 3 (6A254o)
Swift version 1.0 (swift-600.0.38.7)
OS X 10.10 (14A283o)