This would be fairly inconsistent. I’ve never seen swift syntax with semantics 
that are dependent on the formatting.
David.

> On 29 Aug 2016, at 10:10, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It’s a very good point I haven’t seen at first glance. Therefore, how about 
> making the . optional in scenarios where the compiler can safely infer the 
> chain:
> 
> someArray.map {  
>     …  
> } filter {  
>     …  
> } flatMap {  
>     …  
> }
> 
> // and
> someArray.map { … } filter { … } flatMap { … }
> And still keep the . otherwise:
> 
> someArray
>    .map { … }  
>    .filter { … }  
>    .flatMap { … }
> Besides, I’m only talking about the chained closures. Removing the dot in 
> other scenarios is not part of this talk.
> 
> Plus I know such additional sugar changes are on the bottom of the list. I 
> didn’t want to forget the idea until it’s time to discuss things like that. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Adrian Zubarev
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> 
> Am 29. August 2016 um 05:17:49, Xiaodi Wu ([email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>) schrieb:
> 
>> What problem are you trying to solve by proposing this change? It seems like 
>> it would get very confusing to read, so without a compelling use case I 
>> don't think this would be a good idea.
>> 
>> Further, more often than not, chained closures like this are on separate 
>> lines (at least how I use them, which I don't think is rare), and this 
>> change could not possibly work in that coding style. This means that if your 
>> proposal were adopted, the resulting code would be more brittle because a 
>> newline would break the code where previously it didn't. So I'd be -1 for 
>> this change.
>> 
>> In any case, sugar is really low on the list of priorities, even for the 
>> next stage of Swift evolution. Let's focus our attention on the priorities 
>> already identified for this release, which would be a *huge* advancement if 
>> they get accomplished.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> This is a small pitch for stage 2 (or even another Swift release, if the 
>> community likes this change).
>> 
>> We all love the trailing closure plus the ability to execute the next method 
>> with another trailing closure.
>> 
>> someArray.map { … }.filter { … }.flatMap { … }   
>> Wouldn’t be great if we could remove the leading . after the trailing 
>> closure to get similar syntax to if bool { … } else { … }?
>> 
>> someArray.map { … } filter { … } flatMap { … }   
>> 
>> 
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