To consider: the empty tuple expression is currently legal and represents the void value.
> Le 18 déc. 2015 à 10:30:57, Alexandre Lopoukhine via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > > To tie into the discussion of shorthands for “map", here’s something that I > think is worth considering: > > Skipping the motivation (mostly, I’m on a mission to eliminate the $ > character in my functional code), here’s a function definition: > > func first<A,B>(tuple: (A,B)) -> A { > return tuple.0 > } > > Having functions like this transforms > > pairArray.map({$0.0}) > > into > > pairArray.map(first) > > This is not ideal, as it pollutes the global space, and there would need to > be tons of those for various tuple sizes. > > Here’s an alternative: > > pairArray.map(().0) > > I think that this makes the intent pretty clear, as well as non-conflicting > with anything in the language. > > What do you all think? > > — Sasha > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
