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Personally, I prefer extension methods with prefix in Swift. It makes easier to guess whether a function is from the original class or from the extension at first glance. Also, it makes frameworks more reusable in other projects. We don't need to search for the namespace in which the framework method belongs. However, adding prefix to all instance and static methods in extensions is a little bit exhaustive. For this reason, I want to create a module that contains all extension methods whether it is instance or static.

I have taken a look at this implementation, and liked it but unfortunately it only works for instance methods:

I'm using an analytics tool which logs the accessibilityLabel of buttons. I'm trying to find a way to update the accessibilityLabel without changing my existing code.

For normal buttons I use the titleLabel.text. For iconButtons which use their the name coming from image assets I use accessibilityLabel itself.

Some issues I faced:

• can't access accessibilityLabel within its getter. Because that would recursively look for accessibilityLabel.
• So I had to use another property for backing and since this was an extension I wasn't able to use stored properties. Computed properties didn't work either because it would get stuck in the same feedback loop.
• Eventually I hacked my way by using accessibilityHint. It's a stored property that I have no use of...

This works! Yet I've been told and read that I shouldn't override functions in an extension as that's not reliable. So I'm wondering what I should do?

And if Swift has any mechanism that doesn't involve overriding in UIButton's extension?!

here is my code: