Even vb does that... If you ever want to write a compiler or anything that has to dynamically adjust its behavior (which i would expect most objc devs never do) then it might be useful to not cut all the claws of this tigger. Regards LM (From mobile)
> On Jul 6, 2016, at 8:38 PM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's a late answer… but I wanted to be a good citizen and checked if the > topic has been discussed before; so, it seems that is not the case ;-) > > In short, I agree: > Variadic parameters are somewhat cool, and I think I was exited when I've > seen them in C the first time… but I afair, I never created a variadic > function in production code, and I think I just used them for the first time > in Swift (I checked wether print is variadic…) > As of today, string interpolation has several advantages over old-style > string-formatting, and I can't remember any other method in one of the > established libraries that uses this feature: > Explicitly creating an array is just two additional characters, which doesn't > matter in a long list (which imho shouldn't be crammed into the function call > anyways), and when there are only a few parameters, you can mimic variadics > with Optionals defaulted to nil — and who knows what the long-awaited > hygienic macros might do to the importance of variadic parameters. > > Additionally, variadic parameters compete with trailing closures, which for > me would always win the struggle for the last parameter ;-) > > As I said, I can't remember a single use case in Swift — and I already > utilized quite a lot of the "strange" techniques (currying, tuple splat, > complicated combinations of generics & protocols…). > So for me, the answer to the question "would I add this feature to Swift if > it wasn't there?" is a clear no… > > Tino > _______________________________________________ > 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
