Like Kotlin, Swift supports implicit self/this. I ...

# announcements

[Travis Griggs]

Like Kotlin, Swift supports implicit self/this. I ran a poll over in the Swift forums to see who embraced implicit, and who embraced explicit. I honestly expected implicit to be +95%. I was surprised that the breakdown was 29% explict, 71% implicit, out of 140 votes. I'm curious what the breakdown is in the Kotlin crowd.

Poll: Implicit this = 🔵 (:large_blue_circle: ), Explicit this = 🟩 (:large_green_square: )

[Ayfri]

What is the difference between both ?

[Big Chungus]

this.someProp (explicit) vs someProp (implicit)

[Brian Dilley]

for simple accessors i use explicit, for more complex code i prefer implicit

[Nir]

I don't know about swift but in Kotlin, implicit this is a bit of a way of life, it's a big part of what makes the dsls work

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

To add to Nir's point, it is especially useful when you have multiple receivers in the same scope because you don't need a whole ugly this@MyScopeNameOrWhateverTheHeck