On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > (in Smalltalk, like in Swift?, if i remember correctly, ‘self’ is > implicitly > > returned in absence of a return value and can be ignored. > I'm a big fan of returning self — its much more useful than void… > But it seems the Swift-community doesn't like method chaining. > > I dunno about that... AlamoFire and SwiftyJSON both use it, and are quite popular with rank-and-file Swift programmers. It's certainly not popular in the Objective-C community (where the syntax doesn't really support it), but it seems like the Swift community may be warming up to it. I also like the idea of a dedicated method-cascading operator, like what Dart has. It eliminates the need for a programmer to explicitly remember to 'return self' at the end of a chainable method. Not sure how well it'd integrate with SE-0047 (@discardableResult) though.
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