-1 Slowing down development so that paper books can keep up? Sounds like a very bad idea to me.
R+ Sent from my iPhone > On 05 Dec 2015, at 10:26, Matthijs Hollemans <m...@hollance.com> wrote: > > The proposal for the removal of the ++ and -- operators states that, > >> In terms of roll-out, we should deprecate them in the Spring Swift 2.x >> release (with a nice Fixit hint to cover common cases), and remove them >> completely in Swift 3. > > Is it possible to keep the Spring 2.x release non-breaking and backwards > compatible? Authors of books everywhere will be grateful. :-) > > With the speed that Swift is moving, books are out-of-date before they even > hit the shelves. Doing a major yearly update is manageable (barely) but more > than that is a huge burden. > > Most importantly, it is not a very nice experience for readers if the book > they just bought is now wrong. The last thing you want to see as a beginner > is warnings or error messages on code that you’ve just typed in from a book. > > Now that the evolution of Swift is a community effort, it would be nice if > the contribution of book and tutorial authors to the popularity of Swift is > recognized and appreciated by the Swift team, and their concerns taken into > account as well. > > Thanks! > > -Matthijs > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
