What would that look like?
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:06 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
