> On Apr 18, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Tony Allevato via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would also be supportive of removing varargs for now, in favor of a > rethought design when generics are completed. > > In their current form, varargs are fairly limited—because they're mapped onto > an array, the argument types must be homogeneous, so either your function can > only usefully take a single type of argument, or you potentially lose > information because they have to be upcast to a common supertype or Any in > order to build the array. > > I'm not convinced that varargs produce code that is much cleaner than the > array version. Is this: > > String(format: "%@ is %d years old", name, age) > > that much cleaner than: > > String(format: "%@ is %d years old", arguments: [name, age])
I would like to see format strings go away and be replace with safer inline annotations. -- E, somewhat agnostic on variadics _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
