Am 27.12.2015 um 23:24 schrieb Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution
<[email protected]>:
>> In this mail I’m answering several statements made in this thread by
>> different people, not only Brent’s mail from which I just picked the
>> following snippet:
>>
>>> let names = people.map => person { person.name }
>>
>> For me that is more difficult to read than
>>
>> let names = people.map { person in person.name }
>>
>> Especially when chaining is used, i.e.
>>
>> let names = people.filter => person { person.isFriend }.map => person {
>> person.name }
>>
>> (or would I have to add parentheses somewhere with this proposed syntax?)
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> let names = people.filter { person in person.isFriend }.map { person in
>> person.name }
>>
>
> I said in the email that => is too visually heavy for this role.
Sorry, I overlooked that.
> Here's something lighter, although I'm still not satisfied with it, and not
> seriously suggesting it:
>
> let names = people.map ~ person { person.name }
Symbols have this problem in general because they stand out. But the real
problem comes from moving the parameters out of the braces. The symbol only
highlights it.
> Or even:
>
> let names = people.map \person { person.name }
>
> However, I'm really struggling to find anything that I actually like here.
> This may be one of those cases where we dislike what's there and explore a
> bunch of options, only to find out that the current thing actually is the
> least bad alternative after all.
:-)
-Thorsten
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