Description
Add support for protocols (id<ProtocolName>
) for method parameters, ivars, @properties, etc. This will be for documentation purposes at first. With the addition of union types in TypeScript, we could also possibly add this to the typechecker.
Additionally, the same parsing code can handle typed arrays: Array<String>
for an Array of String objects.
I'm hesitant to add generics or expose TypeScript's generic types/functions, but I think making a one-time exception for Array is worth it. Since there is no way for an oj class to subclass the native Array type, the angle bracket syntax on Array
will never indicate a protocol. This will need to be evaluated for Set
in ECMAScript 6. Also, if type annotations make it into ECMAScript 7, we might need to support that syntax in addition for typed arrays.